reckoned

Example Sentences

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To the outside world, it was to signal that Russia was no longer weak but a power to be reckoned with.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

The inspector-general’s office reckoned that thousands of widows and widowers may also have missed out on more than $100 million in benefits through claiming errors that they should have been advised against.

From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026

They are, instead, lacunas to be reckoned with, stemming from the abiding obscurity of human psychology and deepened by the mercurial, ever-fading state of memory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"I think Pakistan is a power to be reckoned, and very much Pakistan is a player. Its geography is so unique that it cannot be ignored," he said.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

In this case, he reckoned, one could obtain the required profusion of neutrons by bombarding an appropriate target with a high-energy deuteron beam.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik