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
“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
The consequences are lethal, and the final reckoning is as devastating as anything I’ve seen in a recent film, musical or not.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2021
The complexion was grayish white—the haunting likeness was gone—but the curious curve of the left ear stood in bold evidence and called for recognition in the final reckoning.
From Janet of the Dunes by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)
