How to Use reckoning in a Sentence
reckoning
noun
- The team is still in the reckoning.
- Because of his injury, he is out of the reckoning.
- When the day of reckoning comes, we will have to face some unpleasant truths.
- Our football team hardly comes into the reckoning.
- I was more than $10 off in my reckoning.
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April is a month of reckoning, and a lot of that won’t be fun to go through.
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Steph Koyfman,
Condé Nast Traveler,
27 Mar. 2024
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That hasn’t happened—yet—but the prospect of the platform’s end has forced a reckoning.
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The Politics Of Everything,
The New Republic,
14 Dec. 2022
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For him, 2024 could in fact turn out to be a final reckoning.
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Susan B. Glasser,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2024
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And over the past 18 months, the industry has faced a reckoning: What goes up must come down.
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Victoria Gomelsky,
Robb Report,
31 July 2023
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This does not happen in the film, and in the grand reckoning with the king, Prince Henry’s mother is nowhere in sight.
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Samuel Maude,
ELLE,
11 Aug. 2023
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Floyd's death triggered a string of racial reckoning in the country and months of protests across the country.
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Luke Barr,
ABC News,
1 Dec. 2023
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Then June came, which is when the racial reckoning in 2020 happened.
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Leah Campano,
Seventeen,
29 Nov. 2022
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And while a reckoning of sorts has begun over the last few years, any attempt to get at the root of it all feels far away.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
23 Dec. 2022
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When the #MeToo reckoning came and Hollywood needed to change, again the Guild spoke up.
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Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Oct. 2023
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This is a reckoning that has been in the making since the civil rights movement.
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Michelle Boorstein,
Washington Post,
24 June 2024
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For Naumann, such fetishization falls far short of a reckoning with the past.
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Evan Moffitt,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2023
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To truly adapt to the future will require a reckoning with our way of life.
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Hayley Smith,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Sep. 2024
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That was 20 years ago, and what came of it was a national reckoning.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg,
New York Times,
12 Dec. 2022
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And that really was a, a reckoning for me, that this was gonna be my career.
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Cnt Editors,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 Feb. 2023
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By some reckoning, these are the best automotive buys in the world.
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Kevin Smith,
Car and Driver,
4 Mar. 2023
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That has forced a bit of a reckoning in the GOP, after three bad elections under Trump.
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Aaron Blake,
BostonGlobe.com,
7 Dec. 2022
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Yet the shock to the tech ecosystem and its elite may still bring down a reckoning for many who believe it’s got nothing to do with them.
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WIRED,
13 Mar. 2023
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All of this is prelude to the coming reckoning at next month’s synod.
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Paul Elie,
The New Yorker,
18 Sep. 2023
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Part of what is happening is a reckoning of sorts with notions of how work has and should be done.
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Chloe Berger,
Fortune,
3 Sep. 2024
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That painful reckoning remains a good way off, with no end to the current conflict in sight.
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Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2024
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The prospect of a reckoning offers the editors of this book some hope after all this grief.
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Sarah Jaffe,
The New Republic,
23 Sep. 2022
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After living in Corona, Stewart returned to Brea again in 2018, while the city was in the midst of a racial reckoning.
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Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2023
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The change comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across the American sports landscape.
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April Rubin,
BostonGlobe.com,
26 Mar. 2023
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But Peters was the one seated at the defense table, facing her reckoning.
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Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
11 Oct. 2024
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Along with being a bracingly honest reckoning with trauma and its aftereffects, Evergreen is also musically right-up-front.
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Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2024
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