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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Unfortunately, the researchers were unable to measure the intensity directly, but theoretical estimates suggest the team may have boosted the laser intensity to 10^23 W per cm2.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 14 May 2026
This in turn shapes estimates of the volume of elements, such as carbon and hydrogen, that are stored in the Earth’s interior.

— James Dinneen, Scientific American, 14 May 2026