final reckoning

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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

“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

Then, with the grim acquiescence of our deserted allies, the still bloody sword would be turned upon ourselves, and that great final reckoning would have come.

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various