final reckoning
Example Sentences
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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
It did not matter in the final reckoning.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 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
A bitter final reckoning that lasted over an hour— Ragnhild told us all about it afterwards.
From Wanderers by Worster, W. J. Alexander (William John Alexander)