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

In the final reckoning, however, Arsenal will take a point with satisfaction despite having been pegged back by Mohamed Salah's 29th-minute thunderbolt after defender Gabriel had headed Arsenal in front after only four minutes.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2023

“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

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 now—now—even in these weeks and months that are passing that the final reckoning is being taken, and when once the sum is made up no further effort can change it.

From New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index by Various