reckon on
Example Sentences
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At the moment, this scheme has been tempered by factors he didn’t reckon on.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Globally bonds have been heavily sold for weeks - prompting the Bank of Japan to step in to steady the JGB market - as investors reckon on interest rates around the world staying elevated.
From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2023
If they turn out to be proven true, readers will have to reckon on their own with the disjunction of biographical fact with biographical supposition.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016
Odds are you won’t say, ‘I didn’t reckon on that extra cost each year,’ and sell it.”
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012
I reckon on the Morrow we shall be seizing Stores from the Islands.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
