reckon with

Example Sentences

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Any solution must also reckon with the shifting profile of creditors.

From Barron's

In defeat, Laguna Beach made clear it will be a team to reckon with next season.

From Los Angeles Times

What ultimately happens here will say a lot about how we reckon with the folk heroes we create, long after they’re dead—and even after all they’ve done comes into full view.

From Slate

Arthur begins as a thuggish, cigar-smoking, sausage-eating, drunken clown, until he’s forced, by events, and the possibility of inheriting the presidency, to reckon with himself.

From Los Angeles Times

Americans who want to believe that the courts will save us have to reckon with the possibility that the Supreme Court will not.

From Slate