reckon with
phrase
as in consider
to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies)
After Scout's emergency surgery, we were forced to reckon with a hefty vet bill.
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Recent Examples of reckon with
His ability to perform a cesarean section — something Doc couldn't dream of — forces the town to reckon with an ugly part of their collective conscience.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 July 2026
Lowell could perhaps be forgiven for not quite finding the words to reckon with the moment.
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Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
3 July 2026
Ireland has been reckoning with the legacy of mother-and-baby homes run by the Catholic Church, in which tens of thousands of women were housed in often degrading conditions.
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ABC News,
2 July 2026
The Vatican crafted the document as the church reckoned with the role traditional Christian teaching had played in the Holocaust.
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Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
And while the images of crowded fountains and shuttered schools dominate the headlines, the economic damage is already accumulating in ways most employers and policymakers have barely begun to reckon with.
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Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
We are drawn to characters who are forced to reckon with themselves.
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Literary Hub,
29 June 2026
My skepticism grew in 2020, when institutions scrambled to reckon with their fraught histories as a response to protests against the murder of George Floyd and police brutality more broadly.
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Lovia Gyarkye,
The New York Review of Books,
21 June 2026
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 July 2026
Lowell could perhaps be forgiven for not quite finding the words to reckon with the moment.
—
Jake Lundberg,
The Atlantic,
3 July 2026
Ireland has been reckoning with the legacy of mother-and-baby homes run by the Catholic Church, in which tens of thousands of women were housed in often degrading conditions.
—
ABC News,
2 July 2026
The Vatican crafted the document as the church reckoned with the role traditional Christian teaching had played in the Holocaust.
—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
And while the images of crowded fountains and shuttered schools dominate the headlines, the economic damage is already accumulating in ways most employers and policymakers have barely begun to reckon with.
—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
We are drawn to characters who are forced to reckon with themselves.
—
Literary Hub,
29 June 2026
My skepticism grew in 2020, when institutions scrambled to reckon with their fraught histories as a response to protests against the murder of George Floyd and police brutality more broadly.
—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The New York Review of Books,
21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reckon with
take into account
Phrase
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The wet bulb globe temperature measures heat stress in direct sunlight, taking into account temperature, humidity, wind speed and solar radiation.
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Other related rosters, such as the Billboard 200, also take into account streaming activity.
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“Reckon with.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reckon%20with. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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