reckoning
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A genuine efficiency breakthrough, or a pause in data-center capital spending, would reprice both sides of this market fast: relief for the consumer-facing companies, and a reckoning for suppliers valued for permanent scarcity.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
But Kuwait said it received 30 Iranian missiles and drones—a wartime salvo by any reckoning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Few countries are more exposed to climate change than Tuvalu, a chain of coral atolls reckoning with acidifying oceans, tropical disease and rising seas.
From Barron's • May 28, 2026
There were some in SNP circles who thought the police had seriously overstepped and would eventually face a reckoning.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
I found several large cans and used one of them to start the “time” can again, dropping five pebbles into it so that the reckoning would begin again from the night of the storm.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
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The Cay
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