reckon
verb (used with object)
to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
are reckoning
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present progressiveof reckon.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Colleges across America are reckoning with the demographic cliff as the pipeline of 18-year-olds dwindles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Meanwhile, families of protesters who were killed are reckoning with their deaths.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2025
“We look for places where they are reckoning and we try to support what they are trying to do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
Even as New York’s museums deliver a season of exhibitions in which the Black figure is emphatically, profoundly present, these institutions are reckoning with legacies of absence, invisibility and anonymity.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2023
And in all of this, you and I are reckoning without Karl.
From Long Live the King! by Mary Roberts Rinehart
