dead reckonings

Definition of dead reckoningsnext
plural of dead reckoning

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Noun
  • His aesthetic speculations in the trilogy bring to mind books as extraordinary as Walter Pater’s The Renaissance and André Malraux’s The Voices of Silence and The Metamorphosis of the Gods.
    Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Sure, there are plenty of rumors and speculations about her scents du jour, but these are the top three that are confirmed mainstays in her rotation.
    Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Some of her theories apparently came to her in vivid dreams.
    Antonia Hitchens, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • The Witch Farm is inspired by the real events, theories, and witness accounts, but the BBC series will create or change some elements of the story for dramatic purposes.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • What is emerging is a picture of an artist of profound mathematical acuity, who mobilized geometric, sequential, and modular forms to test hypotheses on interrelation, regeneration, and evolution in pursuit of mystical revelation.
    Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2026
  • His method of intellectual humility is to admit ignorance, test variables and revise working hypotheses based on new data, staying open to suggestions from others the whole time.
    Deana L. Weibel, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Read more about that here and check out theses photos of the behemoth that carries rockets around the space center.
    Roger Simmons, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The discipline has built a vast array of empirical theses deep inside this single ideology—liberalism—and, in doing so, has naturalized it.
    Jason Blakely, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Take the guesswork out of your packing routine before your next vacation with this digital luggage scale.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Still, this involves a bit of guesswork.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
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“Dead reckonings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead%20reckonings. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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