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
  • By some estimates, close to $1 trillion goes toward administration alone.
    — Bill Miller, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Shomari Figures, the Democratic congressman targeted in Alabama, is, by some estimates, still competitive in his new seat.
    — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Errors can accumulate during calculations, eventually making results unreliable.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Huang and his colleagues mapped out the landscape using data from RNA-sequencing experiments and theoretical calculations.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • State agencies, including the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, have helped local officials with damage assessments and power restoration, among other tasks.
    — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Montalvo also advised residents to stay away from the sea and rivers while emergency officials continued their assessments.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • From the age of 14, pupils will be able to combine technical subjects like manufacturing and AI with core subjects like maths and English.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 29 July 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
  • This is encouraging — trustworthy system should be able to pump the breaks and realize when data inputs are too unreliable to make accurate estimations.
    — Euan Ashley, STAT, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Newsom and the analysts sometimes differ in their estimations.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Co-author Kaitlyn Becker, an MIT mechanical engineering assistant professor, said the technology could help therapists compare patient evaluations over time.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • But on key predictors of vote choice, especially presidential approval and economic evaluations, the opinions of independents appear to be closer to those of Democrats than to Republicans.
    — Julio Borquez, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026

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“Reckonings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reckonings. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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