dead reckonings

Definition of dead reckoningsnext
plural of dead reckoning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for dead reckonings
Noun
  • While speculations grow around when the wedding took place, Law Roach previously told The Cutting Room Floor podcast that no one in the public will ever know the details about their nuptials.
    Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In addition, Younger lost a major chunk of revenue from being closed for two days and receiving fewer customers throughout the week, due to the rain and speculations that the shop was still closed.
    Angela Osorio, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The latest research also provides strong evidence supporting long-standing theories of the Moon’s geological evolution, including the existence of an early global magma ocean that cooled unevenly, leaving distinct crust-mantle and chemical differences between the near and far sides.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Mar. 2026
  • There are some 29 competing theories of consciousness.
    Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Police are looking at several hypotheses.
    Omer Bekin, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The competing hypotheses, which seek to identify common traits between Little Foot and any of these species, highlight why the fossil continues to be such a rich resource of information that could contain clues to human evolution.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The discipline has built a vast array of empirical theses deep inside this single ideology—liberalism—and, in doing so, has naturalized it.
    Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Kirk has two main theses in his book, and expresses each in a very different tone.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • For the landscaping team, this plan eliminates guesswork, minimizes mid-project changes, and keeps the entire process running smoothly.
    Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 7 Mar. 2026
  • This thermal guesswork ends today with the introduction of microscopic, on-chip thermometers to monitor this microscopic chaos from the inside out.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 6 Mar. 2026
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“Dead reckonings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead%20reckonings. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.

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