How to Use reckon with in a Sentence

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• We are drawn to characters who are forced to reckon with themselves.
  — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
• Innocent, childlike ways to cope with a tragedy even most adults struggle to reckon with.
  — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
• El-Sayed believes many of those voters are winnable again if his party reckons with what drove them away in the first place.
  — Nik Popli, Time, 8 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
• But the real subject is mystery—some kind of reckoning with nothingness.
  — Aaron Fagan, Artforum, 11 Aug. 2026
• And blatantly anti-colonialist themes that probe how a child can reckon with their parents’ bloody legacy.
  — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
• At least his head did, while inside it, the haunting of the muses was in full force as the rock star was forced to reckon with his many, um, complicated life choices.
  — Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026
• The filing arrives at a time of crisis for the publishing business, which has recently been forced to reckon with a steep drop in younger readers.
  — News Desk, Artforum, 16 July 2026
• Throughout the week, Platner’s supporters struggled to reckon with the collapse of the campaign.
  — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026
• Four years after the collapse in the market for NFTs, the crypto world is still reckoning with the fallout.
  — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026
• Unlike the federal government, cities typically cannot run huge deficits year after year, and must quickly reckon with promises that cannot be paid for.
  — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
• Decades later, an unexpected reunion forces her to revisit the choices and deceptions of her youth, and to reckon with how the past still echoes into the present.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 24 July 2026
• Still, the move could reshape the podcast industry, which is already reckoning with a migration to YouTube.
  — Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Aug. 2026
• Yet Western militaries have failed to reckon with these innovations in warfare, planning and spending as if nothing new is afoot.
  — Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026
• Yet amid this public reckoning with the United States’ role in the world, American leaders are out of step with their constituents.
  — Michael Fuchs, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026
• 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.
  — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
• For those of us who are reckoning with our youthful tanning exploits, however, the idea of wearing an oil formula in place of a cream or lotion seems like the antithesis of sun safety.
  — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 July 2026
• Having spent two years rebuilding itself, Edinburgh now wants to become a place where the wider British indie sector can reckon with itself.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
• But what elevates the songs into a dyptych masterpiece is its struggle to name and inhabit a feeling when reckoning with another person’s heart.
  — Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
• American democracy will spend decades reckoning with the harm this administration and its enablers in Congress have done.
  — Oliver Adams Larkin, Sun Sentinel, 10 July 2026
• Though the ache of nostalgia reverberates throughout, the songs remain intensely present and vulnerable in their reckoning with it.
  — Andrea Domanick, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
• After adopting the technology at a blistering pace last year, companies have been starting to reckon with the high cost of token usage and, in some cases, beginning to pull back.
  — Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• Residents return For residents returning to the Gironde fire zone, the easing emergency brought a first reckoning with what had been lost.
  — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026
• Busch is sharing his experience publicly for the first time after spending 21 years reckoning with what happened to him at the Michigan boarding school.
  — Ava Berger, NPR, 10 Aug. 2026
• Their pogoing second album, Where’s My Utopia, saw Smith reckoning with the cost of fame and allowed the band to play some of the biggest gigs of their career.
  — Nick Reilly, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2026
• Jobs are down, but consumer sentiment—and the stock market—are up, leaving the retail sector to reckon with a host of seeming contradictions and confusing market signals.
  — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 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
• To Pärssinen, the findings force a deeper reckoning with humanity’s stewardship of the Amazon today.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
• Fifteen years into his career, Future reckons with the blurry line between truth and persona and loses touch with the vulnerability that made his best work so enduring.
  — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 15 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