reckoning
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The pope has written a remarkable document about the dangers of building without reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
For one reporter, the loss isn’t theoretical — it’s a personal reckoning with a changing paradise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
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
As he said, even by demon reckoning it took two figures to write my age, for I was eleven by our system of counting and ten by theirs.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
Fahrenheit 451
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