reckoner

“Santa Baby” is one of the classic holiday flirtations, and Summer Walker is one of contemporary R&B’s great emotional reckoners — an optimal match.

But the sand reckoner was destined to meet his fate while reckoning in the sand.

"It is a ready reckoner to understand where we stand and the impact of land degradation on agricultural productivity."

Whether racked up at the petrol pump or laid out in a bill on the doormat, they are perhaps the readiest reckoner Britons have for determining the rising cost of living.

The philosophers, the reckoners—theirs to judge bad against good and find content that way.