How to Use reckon with in a Sentence
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We are drawn to characters who are forced to reckon with themselves.
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Literary Hub,
29 June 2026
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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
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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
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Though the ache of nostalgia reverberates throughout, the songs remain intensely present and vulnerable in their reckoning with it.
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Andrea Domanick,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2026
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
30 June 2026
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