by/from all accounts

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: according to all of the different descriptions of something

By all accounts, the band put on a great show.

She was, by all accounts, good at her job.

They seemed, from all accounts, to have a happy marriage.

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Donald Trump had tea in the White House and then rode to the Capitol in a limo with a man who, by all accounts, sees Trump as an authoritarian threat to Constitutional ideals. —

David Mastio, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025 The app should, by all accounts, be inaccessible to Americans. —

David Phelan, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 One of my favorite shows in years, and by all accounts, the second season is worth the wait. —

David Pierce, The Verge, 19 Jan. 2025 Lawmakers had been eager to head home for the holidays after unveiling a stopgap funding bill to keep the U.S. government open that by all accounts looked to be cruising toward final passage. —

Zac Anderson, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for by/from all accounts

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