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For Americans watching closely, the message is clear: the warnings are real, and the public is now documenting, dissecting and reckoning with them in real time.

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“It’s about this reckoning — a big exploration of who you are. It got me thinking about how we handle really difficult emotions,” Seehorn says.

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To Cooper, Springsteen’s deeply personal reckoning was where the truth lived, and he knew exactly who could embody it.

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Floyd's death ignited a nationwide reckoning with systemic racism, prompting widespread calls to remove Confederate monuments.

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Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s most serious primary challenge in decades is not just a local political moment, but a prominent example of a generational reckoning underway in the Democratic Party.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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