Words similar to reckoning

Example sentences for: reckoning

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Better to take the bitter medicine now--to let unemployment rise, to force companies to purge themselves of redundant capacity--than to postpone the day of reckoning.
Let them collect interest until the day of reckoning when that political hero finally arrives to raise taxes and retire the debt.
But the piece does report that by one expert reckoning, 14 of the 287 lethal injection executions performed since 1982 have been botched.
But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .
North American friends rightly regard as archaic my use of fortnight , this word being a survival of the old way of reckoning two weeks, by using fourteen-night.