reckon with
Example Sentences
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“Football’s all of a sudden starting to reckon with the new climate realities,” said Elliot Arthur-Worsop, founding director of Football For Future, a pioneering U.K. nonprofit and co-publisher of “Pitches in Peril.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
This Pride Month, we are calling on Christian communities to reckon with what their tradition actually says.
From Salon • Jun. 5, 2026
More than 16% of its borrowers are software businesses—which must reckon with competition from new artificial intelligence tools.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
Nor does it reckon with data on straight men’s growing acceptance of homosexuality or the role of technology in connecting and disconnecting people, or evidence of declining associational activities in general.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Yet this view fails to reckon with the persuasive powers of Ernest Lawrence and Edward Teller, which played the crucial role in creating momentum for the H-bomb.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
