- present participle of reckon.
reckoning
Example Sentences
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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
This summer, a collective of agents that OpenAI was testing internally gained internet access and hacked the AI platform Hugging Face, setting off an industry reckoning with the cybersecurity risks of advanced AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Communications Minister Anika Wells said big tech was facing a "reckoning".
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
They used dead reckoning and followed coastlines as far as they could.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
Fahrenheit 451
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