final reckoning

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A final reckoning with the Dervishes came 16 years later, at the climactic Battle of Omdurman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

In the final reckoning, however, Arsenal will take a point with satisfaction despite having been pegged back by Mohamed Salah's 29th-minute thunderbolt after defender Gabriel had headed Arsenal in front after only four minutes.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2023

“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

A final reckoning between the two surely awaits.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2019

A light cruiser also picked up some of the Formidable's men; but when the final reckoning was made, only 201 had been saved out of a ship's company of well-nigh 800 souls.

From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) by Parrott, James Edward