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The phrase "a great reckoning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where a significant or important moment of realization, judgment, or consequence is being discussed.
Example: "After years of denial, the company faced a great reckoning when the truth about its practices was finally revealed."
Alternatives: "a significant judgment" or "a major realization".
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That's what I wanted Room to be, a great reckoning in a little room.
Having his verses misunderstood, Touchstone jests in Shakespeare's As You Like It, "strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room".
It's to Kulick's credit that the sweep and the sexiness of both plays seem to stretch beyond the confines of the theatre's walls; Shakespeare might have called it "a great reckoning in a little room".
A great reckoning was about to take place.
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It is a time of great reckoning.
This prosecution is supposed to be our great reckoning, a legal remedy for a generation's worth of cultural complacency.
What was for many a time of terrifying anarchy — this was, after all, the world that produced Hobbes's "Leviathan" — was for Milton a great religious reckoning.
Steel in her eyes, she speaks of more conflict to come, of a great tech reckoning that will unleash cataclysmic consolidation in a Slow New World.
Even then, long before the great reckoning of 2007-8, hadhan an inkling of what was in store.
Birthday Letters, written over a period of more than 25 years, was Hughes's own great reckoning – although it would turn out to be incomplete.
It's high melodrama, the great reckoning.
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