final reckoning
Example Sentences
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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
The final reckoning with the maniac is so eye-poppingly directed, you’ll forgive the abrupt ending.
From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022
“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
For its central ideas relate to the remotest ultimates, and its dominant prepossession, the Overman, is, in the final reckoning, the creature of a Utopian fancy.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Heller, Otto
