reckon
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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
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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
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“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
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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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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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