reckon
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Service revenue may have remained flat as tighter prepaid SIM registration rules weighed on demand, although lower dealer commissions and SIM card costs should cushion the impact, they reckon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
They reckon that Montage won’t be hurt by the memory cycle and it is a proxy for server CPU demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Kansas City, as usual over the last decade, will be a force to reckon with — especially at home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Weaker AI monetization expectations lead to less capital spending, which will cause an unwind of long AI positions that will then move into laggards, they reckon.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
‘Takeaway two weeks running? I reckon I can just about stretch to that,’ Dad says with a wink as we head out to the van.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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On balance, Samuel Tombs, chief U.S. economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, reckons that gains from AI in areas like manufacturing aren’t enough to completely offset losses elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
But one railway expert reckons the tram-trains are maybe just too complicated.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
It’s possible that hyperscalers might have over-ordered relative to their needs if data centers are delayed but still, Privorotsky reckons this has already been reflected in lower valuations.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026
She reckons people keep using Meta’s products even when they don’t particularly like or trust the company.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Mr. Nixon’d stepped in to save his bacon—to avoid a scandal, so Julia reckons.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Fellow traitor Maya Jama also sailed all the way to the final with her cool-as-a-cucumber persona making her a traitor to be reckoned with.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Researchers reckoned that 25% of the money paid to U.S. hospitals is blown on administrative costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
Yet for now, the most harrowing issue the AI industry has reckoned with so far appears to be in remission.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
CVL was careful to specify that its estimates only reckoned “employment capacity at risk” and wasn’t “a forecast of layoffs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
He was an honest man, and well-off as things were reckoned in Bree; but thirty silver pennies was a sore blow to him, and being cheated by Bill Ferny made it harder to bear.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Hungary is scheduled to release communist-era secret police files Wednesday, identifying tens of thousands of former informants in a long-delayed reckoning with the central European country's repressive past.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
England edged towards a World Cup exit after their points chase against Papua New Guinea descended into a chaotic and error-strewn 34-12 victory that will almost certainly prove insufficient in the final reckoning.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The subtext is that a merger would create a $3.5-trillion behemoth — America’s fifth-largest company by market value, in the reckoning of Reuters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
I still think the debt-fueled AI build-out will eventually face a true reckoning.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
‘If you’re right in your reckoning, we haven’t dealt with a tithe of them yet. But it’s dark now. I think the next stroke must wait until morning. Then we must call on the Chief.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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