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by all accounts
Idioms and Phrases
Also, according to all accounts . From all reports available, from what everyone is saying. For example, By all accounts the party was a great success , or They spent a fortune on their cruise, according to all accounts . These phrases rely on account in the sense of “a particular report or description of some event.” [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
Talks are ongoing, at quite an intensity by all accounts, between London and Washington on a narrow trade deal, talked up enthusiastically by Donald Trump when the prime minister met him at the White House in February.
Southgate also used to stay within earshot of his players, but by all accounts Tuchel's dedication to staying connected has gone above and beyond his predecessor.
On seeing this, his mother Eileen - by all accounts, a formidable woman - procured him a wig, and demanded he wear it.
“That was a father. I can’t sit here and be angry or feel slighted by LeBron James in any way in that regard. By all accounts, he’s obviously a wonderful family man and a wonderful father who cares very, very deeply about his son. ... He clearly took exception to some of the things he heard me say and he confronted me about it.”
It’s difficult to imagine that Merz — by all accounts a person of highly conventional ideas, atop a fragile coalition with a narrow political mandate — is ready to seize that portfolio.
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