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
Others believe the final reckoning is still unfolding.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
The final reckoning with the maniac is so eye-poppingly directed, you’ll forgive the abrupt ending.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
In the final reckoning, comparisons between last week’s demonstrations and the destruction seen in 1968 may not be apt, according to George Derek Musgrove, associate professor of history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2020
In the day of final reckoning, think you, he will regret having plead the cause of the bondman?
From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin
