reckon
verb (used with object)
to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
have reckoned
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present perfectof reckon.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Blue-collar workers globally have reckoned with growing levels of automation, from mechanized arms welding sheet metal to mixing paint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Over the past two decades, employers have reckoned with the challenges parents face in balancing childcare with work, with about 46% offering paid parental leave, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Doing that sort of modeling, the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other research groups have reckoned that after a century, between 63 and 82 percent of the biochar will stay in the ground.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025
Rwanda, Germany, and South Africa have reckoned with their troubled past to make a better future, but America has long preferred to ignore the past, and proclaim the inevitability of progress.
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2020
Maybe it will not be as much as we have reckoned, then we can leave at once.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
