reckon on
Example Sentences
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At the moment, this scheme has been tempered by factors he didn’t reckon on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
Globally bonds have been heavily sold for weeks - prompting the Bank of Japan to step in to steady the JGB market - as investors reckon on interest rates around the world staying elevated.
From Reuters ● Oct. 6, 2023
If they turn out to be proven true, readers will have to reckon on their own with the disjunction of biographical fact with biographical supposition.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
They also reckon on a US midwest pit-stop followed by New York’s John F Kennedy Airport, before crossing to either Europe or North Africa and, finally, Abu Dhabi.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 30, 2015
She didn’t reckon on her own weakness, however, nor could she ever have imagined the swiftness of Old Tallow’s justice.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
