What Lessons Should News Organizations Learn From Trump's Presidency?
peer - сверстник, ровня; your peers are the people who are the same age as you, or who have the same type of job,
social class etc
// I saw a lot of my white peers just shocked that, you know, such a thing could happen, that these dark forces could then turn upon our very democracy in and of itself.
// American children did less well in math than their peers in Japan.
// Staff members are trained by their peers.
reckoning - 1. расчет; the action or process of calculating or estimating something;
calculation that is based on a careful guess rather than on exact knowledge;
// There's a reckoning happening across the media
// By my reckoning, we have 12,000 clients.
2. a time when you are judged or punished for your actions, or when they have results that affect you
// We know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes.
// In the final reckoning, the president failed to achieve his major goals.
day of reckoning - 1. срок расплаты; 2.час расплаты, судный день
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Optimism About Case Rates, Vaccines, And Future Of The Pandemic
toll - потери, пошлина, плата;
1. the number of people killed or injured in a particular accident, by a particular illness etc.
// The death toll has risen to 83.
// The bombings took a heavy toll, killing hundreds of Londoners.
// this has taken a tragic toll on the United States.
outcome - результат; the final result of a meeting, discussion, war etc – used especially when no one knows what it will be until it actually happens
// It was impossible to predict the outcome of the election.
// People who had heard the evidence at the trial were surprised at the outcome.
Outcome is slightly formal and is used mostly in writing. In everyday English, people are more likely to talk about what happened:
// It was impossible to predict what would happen in the election.
herd immunity - коллективный иммунитет
// You don't have herd immunity, meaning that this won't transfer at all.
rate of decline - скорость снижения