final reckoning

Example Sentences

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All that remained was to find out how close the U.S. had come in the final reckoning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

He was seen as a reform candidate and a disruptor - and in the final reckoning that seems to have cost him the role he said he had been preparing for all his life.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

“I don’t know how to weigh the balance and come up with a final reckoning, but I know that this revenge is sour,” wrote George Packer in the Atlantic, analyzing the killing of Zawahiri.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022

The consequences are lethal, and the final reckoning is as devastating as anything I’ve seen in a recent film, musical or not.

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021

To Mrs. Darby's cast of mind the scheme of death and final reckoning as belonging to a general experience was never intended for her individually.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill