reckon with

phrase

: to take into consideration

Examples of reckon with in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As private longing collides with honor and social codes, each character has to reckon with what their choices cost. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Graham’s poetry—as readers of The New York Review will know—somehow manages to reckon with the whole spectrum of human existence in the 2020s. — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

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. — Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

What makes this week’s episode particularly potent is that there’s some thematic order to the chaos, as the show reckons with the consequences of the box on several fronts at once. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026