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reckon

[rek-uhn] / ˈrɛk ən /




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"To be honest, I reckon the figure is much higher, but then people would be even more convinced that I'm completely mad."

From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026

Analysts reckon that $4,000 will be the key level to watch for gold’s next movement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

"I reckon it's a wake-up call, and the girls will think so too. We fought our way back, so we will take that away with things to work on."

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Kansas City, as usual over the last decade, will be a force to reckon with — especially at home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

Loma was at our house as much as at her own, I reckon, and for a long time after Mama laid down the law I didn’t call her anything.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

But one railway expert reckons the tram-trains are maybe just too complicated.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Qualcomm is going through a period of reinvention — at the same time that the broader consumer-electronics industry reckons with higher memory costs.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

She reckons people keep using Meta’s products even when they don’t particularly like or trust the company.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Though inflation remains high, ING reckons policymakers may prefer more time to monitor the economy, particularly as the government continues to support domestic demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Dumbledore reckons Voldemort wanted Slughorn on his side,” said Harry.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

“From the moment I heard Chappell’s voice, I knew she was a force to be reckoned with,” Aguilera said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Researchers reckoned that 25% of the money paid to U.S. hospitals is blown on administrative costs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Yet for now, the most harrowing issue the AI industry has reckoned with so far appears to be in remission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

With its wealth of rich oil and gas reserves, a significant agricultural sector and a young and skilled workforce, its economy is one to be reckoned with, says Wilson.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

But they had not reckoned on the sport’s extreme physical and psychological demands.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

These are all very different stories, but each can be seen as a major reckoning with abuse of power and culture in the industry.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2026

Each and every moment brings a new reckoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Hungary is scheduled to release communist-era secret police files Wednesday, identifying tens of thousands of former informants in a long-delayed reckoning with the central European country's repressive past.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

The subtext is that a merger would create a $3.5-trillion behemoth — America’s fifth-largest company by market value, in the reckoning of Reuters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

By his reckoning it was nearly thirty leagues from the Morannon to the cross-roads above Osgiliath, and he hoped to cover that distance in four journeys.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien


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