reckon
verb (used with object)
to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
had reckoned
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past perfectof reckon.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Outside a destroyed mosque in the town of Amizmiz, Abdelkadir Smana said the disaster would compound existing struggles in the area, which had reckoned with the coronavirus in addition to the drought.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
For one, Cornet has had her best big-tournament year just as she had reckoned she would exit her sport, some sort of case of victory through appreciation.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2022
“It will take me a day to learn the essentials,” he had reckoned, as we planned the trip.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018
Analysts had reckoned that Deutsche might pay $3 billion or so—around the bottom of the American banks’ range of penalties—from its litigation pot for RMBSs.
From Economist ● Sep. 22, 2016
They had reckoned I would not have the initiative or wherewithal to defend myself; they were mistaken.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
