person to be reckoned with
Example Sentences
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A 21-year-old girl named Valerie Lauder is a person to be reckoned with in Chicago journalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was well dressed in a rough way, evidently a superior sort of farmer, and physically a person to be reckoned with.
From The Man Who Lost Himself by Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere)
Unfortunately he was not the only person to be reckoned with.
From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel
A man who is a "somebody," a "person to be reckoned with," is one who is a "self."
From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin
But I tell you this Draper girl is a person to be reckoned with.
From Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Garrison, Adele
