Elliott West remains astute and fair in covering a place and period often reduced to ideology and polemic. Send us feedback about these examples.'A comprehensive, lucid, and often surprising history of western settlement in America.'- Kirkus Reviews, starred, 'Encyclopedic in its coverage, wonderfully written, full of revealing detail, shrewd and funny in its analysis, Continental Reckoning will become the standard work on the creation of the American West. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'reckoning.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 The vitriol is harming the field and silencing researchers, some fear, but others see it as a long-overdue reckoning.

Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2023 It’s structured around two extensive interviews conducted at different points in the subject’s prevarication - once in delusion and once when facing a reckoning. 2023 But the genesis of the 2022 Broadway revival, directed by Diane Paulus and Jeffrey Page, occurred as notions of American exceptionalism were under fervent attack in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd murder and the subsequent racial reckoning.

2023 By some reckoning, these are the best automotive buys in the world. Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023 In the worm’s case, the requisite timing systems are a daily - or circadian - clock along with another, circalunar clock for its monthly reckoning. Roger Showley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2023 Properties sold for $50 per square foot, a tenth of today’s prices, by one reckoning. Larissa Macfarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023 Each of these has its own complexities and problems, and each is now going through a new reckoning. Recent Examples on the Web While only one person has been indicted as a result of the investigation, advocates and victims’ groups on Thursday predicted that would bring more survivors forward and spark a wave of new civil lawsuits, while the report provided a necessary-if-painful reckoning.

A great reckoning