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
Sterling also slipped on Monday, even as markets reckon on a 60% chance the Bank of England would lift rates by 50 bp next week.
From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2022
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
He said, “I done work day and night for four years. Four years. I didn’t reckon on having ’nough money for ’nother two years yet, Spencer.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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