You're right; I'm definitely guilty of using it myself like that quite often (as above). It's mentioned in Collin's Dictionary [1] as well as in Wiktionary [2]

You're right; I'm definitely guilty of using it myself like that quite often (as above). It's mentioned in Collin's Dictionary [1] as well as in Wiktionary [2] as a replacement for 'in fairness' [3]. [1]https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/to-be-fair https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/to-b... [2]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_fairness#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_fairness#English [3]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_fairness#English https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_fairness#English