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How to use the word reckoning in a Sentence?

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Today certainly in Maryland is a day of reckoning and a day of accounting.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This seems unfortunately common, that Navy leadership throws stones at real or imagined faults in Chinese shipbuilding rather than reckoning with US failures over two decades to conceptualize, design and build ships for its own navy.

Blake Herzinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

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1 year ago

Much better to pass this legislation and move equality forward than simply have a show vote, which would bring political reckoning but no real change for the American people.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The junta's barbarity and callous disregard for human life aims to chill the anti-coup protest movement, european Union member states, the United States, and other governments should show the junta that there will be a reckoning for its crimes.

Elaine Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Chairperson Kamilah Moore can't talk about a racial reckoning in this country without mentioning reparations, reparations are comprehensive enough to address all of the ills that still impact the African American community.

Kamilah Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People are having a moment of reckoning and understand that abortion access will be a really big problem for the foreseeable future.

Kiki Freedman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is vitally important, a vitally important choice, as America grapples with the deadly pandemic, the economic crisis, and the reckoning on race -- what it reveals the deep disparities that still exist in our country, and there should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are at a moment of reckoning in America. The Senate failed our democracy tonight.

Eric Holder

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are at a pivotal moment, vermont families are struggling through multiple crises : a global pandemic, the consequences of climate change, and a racial reckoning generations in the making. The result of this election will determine control of the Senate and with it, what we can accomplish for Vermont families.

Peter Welch

Found on CNN
2 years ago

There’s going to be a reckoning.

Victor Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I want to thank all those who work for justice today, to ensure this is not merely a reckoning of things past but a change in our orientation to each other and this community in years to come.

Sam Liccardo

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ron DeSantis has put Ron DeSantis donors and Ron DeSantis political ambition before Florida children, and Republicans across the country want to follow his lead, if Florida Republicans think Florida Republicans's the best way to recover from Covid, they are going to face a reckoning from voters in 2021 and 2022.

David Turner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Markets in general are still trying to find their feet, equities, of course, continue to shrug off or ignore anything that might be considered remotely negative as they continue their merry and complacent dance towards an inevitable reckoning.

James Athey

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

If we really believe that this is a moment of reckoning in every way then we must act accordingly, and that means that Donald J. Trump must be held accountable because he is culpable for having incited this insurrection by perpetuating this' big lie,' this House has twice done This House job. He will forever be the twice-impeached President by this Democratic majority-led This House.

Ayanna Pressley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I mean, it's breathtaking to think about, and if it's not true, then there needs to be a reckoning on our side.

Richard Hudson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is a long-overdue reckoning, this is a moment to do a radical reshaping of how we are seen.

Karsonya Wise Whitehead

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I want to apologize for that, and not make up excuses, and not sit here today and give you a list of reasons why. This moment is a reckoning. It's a reckoning for America, it's a reckoning for New York City.

Corey Johnson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There is a massive corporate reckoning coming.

Todd Sirras

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What those women went through on the stand broke my heart, i'm so happy today that the jury believed them... This is absolutely a day of reckoning for Harvey Weinstein, as I hoped it would be.

Actress Caitlin Dunlany

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Robotaxis have been three years away for probably the last five years, we're seeing a reckoning between what technologists understood to be the hard problems that were going to take us 10, 15, 20 years to solve, and what was a hype cycle.

Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is no doubt that the day of reckoning has come for the multistate operators, the days of being valued at projections three years down the road are long gone.

Matt Hawkins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

But Big Techs antitrust reckoning are acting as one today.

Karl Racine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This is the day of reckoning that Qualcomm has been very fortunate to avoid for many years, in Apple, they've finally come up against a potential licensee that has the resources and the will to put Qualcomm's business model and licensing practices on trial.

Gaston Kroub

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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