reckon with

Example Sentences

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“I appreciate that my community has the integrity and the strength to reckon with these new revelations in a very expedient way, and as we do in Los Angeles,” said Los Angeles City Councilmember Monica Rodriguez, who added that the effort to rename the holiday was immediate.

From Los Angeles Times

After experiencing “heavy personal news,” as you put it, one of the most painful realities to reckon with is that life does go on.

From MarketWatch

And as the virus continues to circulate, more people are being forced to reckon with a life-altering yet often invisible disability whose relative newness offers few answers for the future and few avenues for support.

From Los Angeles Times

It forces you to get out of your car so you can really look at a place and forces you to reckon with all that it means.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Millet is efficient and empathetic in her prose, but her message—that we must reckon with environmental catastrophe and our own moral complacency—blows through this novel like its own bracing storm.

From The Wall Street Journal