final reckoning

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A final reckoning with the Dervishes came 16 years later, at the climactic Battle of Omdurman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

He was seen as a reform candidate and a disruptor - and in the final reckoning that seems to have cost him the role he said he had been preparing for all his life.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

“I don’t know how to weigh the balance and come up with a final reckoning, but I know that this revenge is sour,” wrote George Packer in the Atlantic, analyzing the killing of Zawahiri.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022

A final reckoning between the two surely awaits.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2019

In the day of final reckoning, think you, he will regret having plead the cause of the bondman?

From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin