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What does by all accounts mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word by all accounts? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (literally) According to all available accounts or reports.
  2. (idiomatic) According to everything that people have said.
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Indeed, by all accounts Tsutsumi ran the public company like a private fiefdom.
Already in high school, he had indexed and proofread his father Irwin's texbook, and, by all accounts, had improved it in other nontrivial ways.
He was, by all accounts, a crude chap who, when he cursed, did so to effect.
This is very different from Michael Skakel back in 1975, who was by all accounts a very rambunctious kid.
This man did not burn out and by all accounts performed his duties creditably.
The quantity of alcohol consumed by southern highlanders was, by all accounts, stunning.

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