reckoned
Example Sentences
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When Bessent helped George Soros break the pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, he reckoned that the country’s floating-rate mortgages made it politically painful for Britain to raise interest rates to prop it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
With 92 minutes on the clock, when they were leading record World Cup winners Brazil 2-0 in their round of 16 match, ITV commentator Sam Matterface said Norway were "a force to be reckoned with".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The inspector general also found $12.6 million in “questioned costs,” plus another $64.5 million in funds that it reckoned the Social Security Administration could “put to better use.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 4, 2026
Moyers asked Brennan if he reckoned that the Framers intended to insulate justices “from the pressures of politics so that you could follow the light of reason?”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 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
