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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In the century that followed, however, some Americans still insisted on reckoning with Washington’s involvement in slavery.
  — John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026
• The lead-up to the wedding feels like a ticking clock as Charlie and Emma’s best friend, Rachel (Alana Haim, perfectly cast), tries to reckon with feeling morally superior to the bride-to-be.
  — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 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
• Simultaneously rendering the past less remote while relishing its radical foreignness, Beard presses readers to grapple with alien ideas, reckon with gaps in their knowledge, and confront complexity.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 20 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, Fortune’s Catherina Gioino reports.
  — Jim Edwards, Fortune, 30 June 2026
• That’s highly unlikely considering Lestat and Louis were steps away from getting back together before they were beheaded and had spared only a small moment to reckon with her spending an eternity stuck in purgatory without Madeleine (Roxane Duran).
  — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
• Regardless of these candidates’ motivations or DSA affiliations, the Democratic Party will need to reckon with their divergent ways of representing their constituents, particularly if the party retakes one or both chambers of Congress next year.
  — Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 7 July 2026