reckonings

plural of reckoning

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of reckonings The exotic premise is developed with relentless seriousness, even severity, extracting deep pathos from the characters’ eerie reckonings. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026 Necessary reckonings have pulled the deepest wounds of American history to the surface, fracturing the public into factions of the wronged, the guilty, and those in hysterical denial. — Judy Berman, Time, 9 July 2026 Harrington also led the library’s racial equity task force in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in 2020, which ignited a wave of racial reckonings across the country. — Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2026 All the while, the dramatic shift to Sacramento’s downtown has inspired some broader reckonings, among local leaders, about how reliant the urban core had become upon office workers. — Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026 In the wake of the 2020 protests of anti-Black police violence, museums put themselves forward as hosts for their communities’ racial reckonings and difficult discourses. — Greg Allen, ARTnews.com, 7 June 2026 Two presidents, two reckonings In February, a Seoul court sentenced former President Yoon to life in prison for the martial-law attempt; his former defense minister got 30 years. — Joohee Cho, ABC News, 4 June 2026 A lot of it was kind of reckonings with childhood, really very expressive work. — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reckonings
Noun
  • Walczak’s estimates assume local governments raise tax rates enough to fully replace the lost revenue, based on state property records for every parcel in Florida.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2026
  • The team generated 500 model estimates and calculated average concentrations for 25 PFAS detected at least once in the national dataset.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The Herald included active and inactive voters in all calculations and graphics, since inactive voters are still eligible to cast ballots.
    — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
  • When climate forecasters built models, their calculations assumed CCS would work.
    — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Its engineering and technical teams provide analysis and assessments that help the service evaluate its warfighting capabilities.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Their assessments point to a tighter race than many initially expected, including perhaps Matsui who has spent millions of her personal wealth on the campaign in recent months.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Less than a month after astonishing the world with its solution to the long-standing Navier-Stokes problem, OpenAI has released 722 maths papers, proving or disproving problems across numerous fields from algebraic geometry to number theory.
    — Will Barker, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026
  • As a school-leaving-age young woman in 2012, simple maths dictates that she must have been conceived around the time of a conflict that was also defined by the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • The company’s responsibilities have included negotiating acquisitions, structuring deals, ensuring project appraisals are completed and collaborating with the state agency that Bell leads.
    — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The shop also provides research and appraisals of instruments.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • By all estimations, the incoming results are expected to be strong.
    — Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Sarah Min, CNBC, 11 Oct. 2026
  • And that sum excludes marketing and promotional expenses, as is customary for budgetary estimations.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Beehive plans to shift toward vehicle integration once the prototype advances through further evaluations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026
  • After 90 days and weekly supervisor evaluations, the PIP officially ended in July 2025.
    — Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026

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“Reckonings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reckonings. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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