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prep. (context idiomatic English) Based on what is said or stated by; on the authority of.
Usage examples of "according to".
He was in a little house that smelled of pipe tobacco, he was in a living room with framed photos of animals pretty special ones, according to the captions on the walls, a living room where only the huge, shapeless chair in front of the TV looked really used, and he had just tied his bandanna around his leg where he had sustained a bullet-wound, shallow but a bona fide bullet-wound just the same, and people were yelling, scared and yelling, and the skinny woman in the sleeveless blouse was also wounded (nothing shallow about hers, either) and outside people were dead, and if all this wasn't a problem, then Steve guessed that 'problem' was a concept without meaning.
Mornelithe Falconsbane had eventually been driven out and destroyed, and by some miracle-literally a miracle, according to those who had been there at the time- An'desha body had been returned to the form it had once held.
Everyone who works will be paid a fair wage, according to the skill of the job.
There were two men down with broken legs, five with broken arms, and a half dozen with broken collarbones, according to the roster.
You and two of these foreigners have been closeted doing some form of unspecified scrying, according to Selenay.
And they are still alive and ready for use, according to our traditions.
On it was displayed a computer-generated schematic of their search-vectors superimposed over a variety of probability wedges, colored according to their priorities.
Bayley said, choosing to ignore the intellectual bait being dangled in front of him, "it's been thirty years, and according to the official summary, the LifeScan program still hasn't managed to make a model of anything.
Now, according to local police records, your wife visited the wreck, ostensibly looking for your briefcase.