reckoning
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The firm added that SpaceX’s expected initial public offering has “forced a reckoning among allocators” who don’t currently have exposure to the market.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
It’s a tender, bizarro reckoning with marriage, infertility and friendship, among life’s other illusions.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
Where Fausset’s story was clumsy enough to draw immediate institutional embarrassment, Bernstein’s is polished enough to escape the same reckoning.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
“To deny that only prolongs the situation and puts off any way of reckoning with it. We have to face it in order to understand that it’s within our human nature.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Vocabulary lists containing reckoning
Fahrenheit 451
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