reckon with
Example Sentences
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“Football’s all of a sudden starting to reckon with the new climate realities,” said Elliot Arthur-Worsop, founding director of Football For Future, a pioneering U.K. nonprofit and co-publisher of “Pitches in Peril.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
More than 16% of its borrowers are software businesses—which must reckon with competition from new artificial intelligence tools.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
The obituaries, social media posts and GoFundMe pages capture the utter despair of the families, though none of them reckon with the decision not to get the vitamin K shot.
From Salon • May 7, 2026
Mr. McCarthy also doesn’t reckon with differences among men of different ages, or ask whether his sample is representative.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
In several years, I’d get my chance to work for the university and reckon with some of these community-relations problems directly, but right now Art was just kindly offering to pass around my résumé.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
