reckoning
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Experts point at three main reasons for the steady prices but caution that a reckoning is not too far as the Strait of Hormuz remains at a standstill.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
"For two and a half years, we've watched organisations close ranks, mark their own homework, and the inquiry must be the true reckoning."
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
But Kuwait said it received 30 Iranian missiles and drones—a wartime salvo by any reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
That betrayal may have triggered a political and criminal reckoning on both sides of the border.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
“It really is a gargantuanly hideous picture. I chose it to hide the safe on the reckoning that nobody could possibly want to steal it.”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
Fahrenheit 451
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