How to Use reckon in a Sentence
reckon
verb
- Do you reckon you'll be able to go to the grocery store after work?
- I reckon that we'll have to leave early.
- Losses were reckoned to be over a million dollars.
- They reckoned that they would reach their destination by noon.
- We'll have to leave early, I reckon.
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The calendar was just one of the systems the Maya used to reckon time.
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Antonia Mufarech,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 Apr. 2022
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All that said, though, that is a lot of TV for any one creator to reckon with.
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Joe Wituschek,
BGR,
30 Nov. 2022
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For now, the HCS may have to reckon with a diminished place in the landscape.
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Ethan Davison,
Washington Post,
2 Dec. 2022
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All that said, there’s still the behemoth of Pride to reckon with.
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Emma Specter,
Vogue,
13 June 2022
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And so, for now at least, we’re left to reckon with Carlson’s time at Fox News.
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Alex Shephard,
The New Republic,
24 Apr. 2023
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The name change came as the U.S. reckoned with its history of racial injustice in the wake of the killing of George Floyd.
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Cara Tabachnick,
CBS News,
23 Dec. 2023
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But Mass General Brigham is still the force to be reckoned with.
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Globe Columnist,
BostonGlobe.com,
15 Sep. 2023
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The near miss, coupled with my injury, forced me to reckon with risk.
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Sharael Kolberg,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2024
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Braun says it’s time to reckon with these thorny questions.
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Grace Browne,
Wired,
15 Feb. 2022
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With the past, present and future to reckon with, the series shoots off in a lot of directions.
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Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2022
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That's heady stuff, but exactly the kind of idea young people reckon with all the time.
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Christian Holub,
EW.com,
23 July 2022
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Maybe next year, maybe in five years, or maybe never, Lee reckons.
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Bynick Rockel,
Fortune,
12 Apr. 2024
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But there seemed a lava flow inside him that would not be easy to reckon with.
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Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Oct. 2023
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Yet both fans and haters have had to reckon with the fact that although the best Swift albums have evolved her sound, this one takes a U-turn.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2022
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Books In a new memoir, the author reckons with the attack that nearly took his life.
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George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Apr. 2024
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That has forced investors to reckon with the end of a decadeslong era of low interest rates.
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Hardika Singh,
WSJ,
26 Sep. 2022
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And Eleven goes off on her own to reckon with what happened to her while in Dr. Brenner’s custody.
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
24 May 2022
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The Batman director Matt Reeves reckons that this moment shaped the adult Oz, and was very much a choice.
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Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
4 Nov. 2024
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Any art about right now has to reckon with the inane malaise of two years spent remembering to pack your kids’ school masks.
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Hillary Kelly,
Vulture,
23 Dec. 2021
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In his courtship of her, Frederick must reckon with the trauma of his childhood.
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Valerie Wu,
Variety,
15 Nov. 2023
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And now, his own campaign has finally been forced to reckon with it.
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Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani,
The New Republic,
25 July 2023
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But, for the first time, the university is publicly reckoning with the damage it’s caused to the Shoe Lane area.
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Logan Jaffe,
ProPublica,
23 Apr. 2024
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In the somber days after the fire, the collective agony of locals reckoning with their loss could be felt across the island.
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Ali Francis,
Bon Appétit,
23 Aug. 2023
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Lee Sang-won closed his cafe near the accident site early, at around 2 p.m., struggling to reckon with the tragedy.
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Jiyoung Sohn,
WSJ,
30 Oct. 2022
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Unlike her wryly astute essays, the playwright scarcely reckons with the thorny nuances of mourning, and instead settles for a rather pat depiction of grief.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
24 Oct. 2024
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