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"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

Weaker AI monetization expectations lead to less capital spending, which will cause an unwind of long AI positions that will then move into laggards, they reckon.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Some developers turn to pre-built, commercially available engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine, rather than reckon with the challenge of coding from scratch.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The prime minister, however, will also have to reckon with growing questions about how the attacker—Omani co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami, people familiar with the matter said—slipped through security to work such a sensitive route.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

“Now then, I reckon y’all go’n be-have whilst I ring up Pearl Potter, our po-lice. Thet’s Mister Pearl Potter, for yore information.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

However, she reckons significant hawkish repricing is now reflected in gold prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The IFS reckons that to maintain departments' budgets in the face of higher inflation, the government may need to find an extra £25bn in 2029-30.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

The social worker, who mainly goes by her first name, reckons that a poll worker might have added the honorific to her name in the past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Tony Pasquariello acknowledges the trading environment is “certainly not uncomplicated” but still reckons the underlying trend is higher and the S&P 500 benchmark will end 2026 higher than it is today.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

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

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

CVL was careful to specify that its estimates only reckoned “employment capacity at risk” and wasn’t “a forecast of layoffs.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Olsi reckoned it would probably start up again in the autumn, though, regardless of those survey results.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

The startup struggled to raise funds initially, because potential investors and customers reckoned that the founders were too inexperienced to succeed in a field as complex as AI computing hardware.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

He hadn’t reckoned the man for a songbird.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Dana Cleaveley, a research consultant formerly with SeaChoice, a Canadian sustainable-seafood group, said that many industries have already had to begin reckoning with the human rights and environmental abuses buried in their supply chains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

And though Cassie’s extracurricular pursuits echo that cultural reckoning, some distance reveals that “Promising Young Woman” is less about justice than protection.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

“It’s sort of a reckoning coming: Jet fuel’s up, diesel’s up, consumers are a bit squeezed,” Ferguson said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Now that “learn to code” doesn’t seem to be the foolproof career advice it once was, thanks to artificial intelligence, Ms. Singer argues that it’s time for a reckoning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Now he has paid the reckoning in full.”

From "The Odyssey" by Homer