reckon
verb (used with object)
to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
reckoned
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past participleof reckon.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof reckon.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
reckonverb (used with object)to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
Example Sentences
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"He reckoned he failed if he lost his temper."
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
CVL was careful to specify that its estimates only reckoned “employment capacity at risk” and wasn’t “a forecast of layoffs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Olsi reckoned it would probably start up again in the autumn, though, regardless of those survey results.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
When Bessent helped George Soros break the pound on “Black Wednesday” in 1992, he reckoned that the country’s floating-rate mortgages made it politically painful for Britain to raise interest rates to prop it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
For the first time I fully reckoned with the truth that the conviction, the death sentence, and the heartbreak and devastation of this miscarriage of justice had created permanent injuries.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
