Example Sentences

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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

You all could have reckoned with the results of his indiscretion years ago.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2020

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

Companies have reckoned with issues of race, class and gender for generations now.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2017

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