- present participle of reckon.
reckoning
Example Sentences
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Dana Cleaveley, a research consultant formerly with SeaChoice, a Canadian sustainable-seafood group, said that many industries have already had to begin reckoning with the human rights and environmental abuses buried in their supply chains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
And though Cassie’s extracurricular pursuits echo that cultural reckoning, some distance reveals that “Promising Young Woman” is less about justice than protection.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
“It’s sort of a reckoning coming: Jet fuel’s up, diesel’s up, consumers are a bit squeezed,” Ferguson said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Over the past week, a global reckoning about the risks of artificial intelligence spread from the frontier labs of Silicon Valley to living rooms across America and the corridors of power in Washington and Beijing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
When to lock and when to unlock was, by one reckoning, what we were here to learn.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
Fahrenheit 451
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