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reckoning

[rek-uh-ning] / ˈrɛk ə nɪŋ /


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Belle Burden’s blockbuster memoir “Strangers,” now in its ninth printing, has sparked a personal-finance reckoning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

The firm added that SpaceX’s expected initial public offering has “forced a reckoning among allocators” who don’t currently have exposure to the market.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026

Where Fausset’s story was clumsy enough to draw immediate institutional embarrassment, Bernstein’s is polished enough to escape the same reckoning.

From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026

None, obviously, came close to the 10% pullback known as a correction, which by Carlson’s reckoning occurs on average every 1.8 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

They used dead reckoning and followed coastlines as far as they could.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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