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
That is more than 80 bps below the two-year yield as investors reckon on high rates hurting growth.
From Reuters • Dec. 7, 2022
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
Odds are you won’t say, ‘I didn’t reckon on that extra cost each year,’ and sell it.”
From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2012
“I don’t reckon on coming back,” she said.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
