reckoned

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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

To the outside world, it was to signal that Russia was no longer weak but a power to be reckoned with.

From BBC • May 30, 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

Speaking to The Times about the tune, Diamond reckoned he “said more in less words than in any other song I’ve ever written.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

In this case, he reckoned, one could obtain the required profusion of neutrons by bombarding an appropriate target with a high-energy deuteron beam.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik