Example Sentences

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One of the hardest parts of grief is reckoning with the fact that life doesn’t stop and the most mundane tasks still need doing, even when your internal landscape feels shattered.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

There's an overwhelming sense that the artist Stefani Germanotta is reckoning with the stage persona she created.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2025

Late last week, Paramount alerted investors that it took a $6-billion write-down on its cable television networks business, in yet another sign that Hollywood is reckoning with the ongoing deterioration of the traditional television business.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

At this point in his career, every film that Hayao Miyazaki makes could be his last, and no one is reckoning with this inevitability more than Miyazaki himself.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023

Either she is to be there with Mrs. Wishart, or he is reckoning to see her by the way; and the Isles of Shoals are just a blind.

From Nobody by Warner, Susan