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
But policymakers had reckoned on base effects kicking in as the 2021 oil surge abated, tempering year-on-year inflation.
From Reuters ● Jan. 19, 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
And when they had reckoned up all their strength and taken thought for the journeys they should make and the roads they should choose, Imrahil suddenly laughed aloud.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
