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The day of reckoning has arrived not just in Ferguson, Missouri, but also across America.

What should have been a moment of reckoning for a selfish, serial liar instead ended with us pitying him.

They converted what should have been a long-overdue moral reckoning into a shallow and hysterical ratings bonanza.

Regardless of how talented or athletic or smart the people are, death seems to be the reckoning that will eventually come.

Steinbeck, too, seemed to think that a sort of economic reckoning was close at hand when he invented the Joads in late 1938.

Reckoning that Neptune is the outermost planet of the solar system, that system would have a diameter of 5,584 millions of miles.

He says that he has sins enough to his account without laying up a reckoning with posterity.

This year no less than seventy-six slave-ships have sailed, without reckoning the smugglers in that line.

Surely, 'his reckoning hits so hideous' would be a most clumsy expression.

With him he spent a couple more days, and then, with an effort he was never to forget, prepared himself for the reckoning.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reckoning, such as: calculation, estimation, adding, addition, arithmetic, and bill.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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