final reckoning

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All that remained was to find out how close the U.S. had come in the final reckoning.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 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

And yet, in the final reckoning and when that pain has subsided, England's point here is another valuable step on the road to Qatar.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2021

London trading ends at lunchtime today, so we’ll have a final reckoning of how the year has played out.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2019

It is said that the Emperor was of the opinion that the moment had come to have a final reckoning with his enemies; but what a terrible error that is!

From New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? by Various