reckoning
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Experts point to three main reasons for the relatively steady prices but caution that a reckoning is not too far off.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
For one reporter, the loss isn’t theoretical — it’s a personal reckoning with a changing paradise.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
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
"For two and a half years, we've watched organisations close ranks, mark their own homework, and the inquiry must be the true reckoning."
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
It is pointless to make big plans because you never know when someone is going to wake you up in the middle of the night and say, “The day of reckoning has arrived.”
From "Louisiana's Way Home" by Kate DiCamillo
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
Fahrenheit 451
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