reckon
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They reckon that this backdrop means companies will have to provide sufficient confidence in their guidance if they are to arrest the current slide in forward estimates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
When Lestat is made to reckon with what’s presented as “failures” in both his mortal and immortal lives, he can’t quite own up to being a true monster, because that’s not what he really is.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
Now he has to reckon with what he’s done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
In a column published in the Financial Times, Klement warned that “supernormal” profits probably won’t persist forever, and that at some point, investors will likely need to reckon with financial reality.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 6, 2026
"No, I reckon he couldn't have come by this much cash honestly."
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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Still, she reckons the recent decline is more likely a temporary repricing process, rather than the beginning of a prolonged bear market for the yellow metal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
May reckons she has saved about £5,000-£8,000 through swaps in places like Barcelona and the Swiss Alps.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Julius Baer sees room for gold prices to regain lost ground, as the Swiss private bank reckons the Fed is unlikely to raise its interest rates while the dollar could weaken.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The second thing is he revels in doing the vision thing: setting out, with passion, the route he believes could lead to a better society and why he reckons he could lead us there.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
He reckons it'll be worth a fortune twenty or thirty years from now, when the Falklands War has turned into history.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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With 92 minutes on the clock, when they were leading record World Cup winners Brazil 2-0 in their round of 16 match, ITV commentator Sam Matterface said Norway were "a force to be reckoned with".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Speaking to The Times about the tune, Diamond reckoned he “said more in less words than in any other song I’ve ever written.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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
He reckoned investors would need to see a solid break higher during the overnight session for these gains to really stick.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 15, 2026
The end of the spy wars left the CIA with a lot of cleaning up to do and unresolved questions to be reckoned with.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Newsom faced renewed criticism for the affair during the 2018 governor’s race amid a larger reckoning over sexual misconduct in politics, corporate America and Hollywood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
I would add that the Salinger myth also delayed a reckoning with his most famous character’s mental health.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Wall Street is reckoning with a new reality: The biggest tech companies are no longer cash-printing machines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
History suggests these expectations might have gotten ahead of themselves, and that a market reckoning could be in order.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
I turned the page and found a reckoning from Olive to Hattie.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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