How to Use reckon with in a Sentence

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  • Maud is then forced to reckon with her crimes, both present and past.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2026
  • We are drawn to characters who are forced to reckon with themselves.
    — Literary Hub, 29 June 2026
  • Their families still mourn them and reckon with the pain of knowing their loss is tied to that day.
    — Lila Dominus, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Innocent, childlike ways to cope with a tragedy even most adults struggle to reckon with.
    — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • Two decades of footage follow a boy’s path to manhood and his parents’ reckoning with change.
    — Isabelle Farina, Variety, 7 Oct. 2026
  • What makes this difficult to reckon with is the fact this rarely looks like a rogue actor cutting corners.
    — Donna Dror, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The French church has endured a brutal reckoning with its legacy of abuse.
    — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • That’s something these companies are really gonna have to reckon with.
    — Nilay Patel, The Verge, 8 Oct. 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
  • And that reality is something her successor must reckon with as soon as the hire is made.
    — Jerry Brewer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Nearby states are reckoning with how to share a shrinking water supply.
    — Daniel Wine, CNN Money, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Lowell could perhaps be forgiven for not quite finding the words to reckon with the moment.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
  • As her father reckons with the question of where to rest his own body, the filmmaker wonders whether the tsantsa deserves the same.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
  • But the real subject is mystery—some kind of reckoning with nothingness.
    — Aaron Fagan, Artforum, 11 Aug. 2026
  • That way, everyone will be forced to reckon with your greatest superpower.
    — Loren Savini, Allure, 4 Sep. 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
  • Yields have climbed across the globe as investors reckon with surging energy prices and potential central bank rate hikes.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
  • 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
  • Others have been reckoning with 9/11’s physical toll for years.
    — Lila Dominus, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
  • These are women who put themselves in danger, live in denial, and only belatedly reckon with the cost of their choices.
    — Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Even more than any of Horgan’s previous work, Youth is about reckoning with one person’s story of her own life.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 18 Sep. 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
  • And really, who wants to read about GOP-voting Boomers trying to reckon with their blind spots?
    — Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Throughout the week, Platner’s supporters struggled to reckon with the collapse of the campaign.
    — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 9 July 2026
  • Signs calling for their return are mostly gone, but reminders of those who were killed are ubiquitous in a country still reckoning with the trauma of that day.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Elsewhere in the film, Quirt must reckon with the legacy of brutality left to him by his father, and by his own livelihood in recent years.
    — Michael Phillips, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
  • While some of my characters know their diagnosis, others don’t and are forced to reckon with the realization later in the book.
    — Megan Mostyn-Brown, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The show in the streaming and prestige TV era has had to reckon with nominees that bring with them special buzz but not big audiences.
    — ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Yet just days after the Astra demo, OpenAI had to reckon with a new crisis.
    — Alex Heath, Time, 26 Aug. 2026

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