Thesaurus results for RECKONINGS

reckonings

noun

plural of reckoning

as in estimates

the act of placing a value on the nature, character, or quality of something that old chest isn't worth much by my reckoning, but an antiques dealer might think otherwise

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as in calculations

the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value you forgot about the decimal point, so your reckoning was way off

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Recent Examples of reckonings A lot of it was kind of reckonings with childhood, really very expressive work. —

Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2026 Similar reckonings are happening across states. —

Chad De Guzman, Time, 19 Mar. 2026 Randall accused him of a feel-good liberalism that ignores deeper racial and class reckonings that South Bend (a city that is just barely half white) has coming. —

Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026 The professionalism of stars, their charismatic hold over audiences, is inseparable from such tough-minded reckonings. —

Richard Brody, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026 On their first proper album in nine years, the Boston metalcore veterans shift between blistering political bloodlettings and moody reckonings with mortality. —

Patrick Lyons, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2026 Still, Saunders, a short-story master, has now written two consecutive novels about final reckonings watched over by comically argumentative spirits. —

The Week Us, TheWeek, 4 Feb. 2026 In this numinous world, visitors come by for death bed reckonings, and the CEO will have many scores to settle. —

Emma Alpern, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025 Parties double as social reckonings and scenes for major turning points—places where power shifts, deals are struck, and revolutions are born. —

Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 29 Dec. 2025

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In the past few years, Russia, at an enormous cost to its own forces, made steady advances on the battlefield (most estimates suggest more than a million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the start of the conflict).

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
The fires themselves killed and damaged a significant fraction of the areas’ urban tree cover — both private and public — although precise estimates are hard to come by.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026