reckoning
Example Sentences
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“To deny that only prolongs the situation and puts off any way of reckoning with it. We have to face it in order to understand that it’s within our human nature.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Let’s hope that April 12 will prove to be a day of reckoning.
From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026
To see why these verdicts are social media’s “Big Tobacco moment,” as Slate’s What Next: TBD put it, it’s important to understand how Silicon Valley evaded this kind of reckoning for so long.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
“Each day the war rages, we see a reckoning slowly approaching.”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 24, 2026
Maddie flew alone, careful and happy, low over the snow-tipped Highlands on those pretty tapered wings, deafened by the Merlin engine, navigating by dead reckoning.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
Fahrenheit 451
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