reckon
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Ben's prediction: Palace lost 3-0 to City home and away last season, but I reckon they will nab a goal this time.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
But like it or not, he must learn to reckon with the heightened expectations and speculation that comes with simply being good at his current job.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
"I said: 'Do you reckon they will be able to do it?' Within five minutes he brought it back up and it was done. It's really nice."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
This could lead the market to demand a modestly higher yield from Telstra, they reckon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
“I reckon, Mary Willis,” he grumped, “if'n you’ll set over in the corner and not say nothin’ and not cry.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
The Woodland Trust reckons there are only 39,000 of them left, while the Save Our Reds campaign thinks just 15,000 remain, including in conservation areas such as Formby on Merseyside.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Macquarie reckons consensus expectations for FY27 Ebitda of A$2.04 billion are materially too high.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
However, stronger wealth-management and fee income, alongside net interest income-driven focus, should help offset weaker net interest margin and trading conditions, he reckons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Current valuations could have largely reflect optimism surrounding capital management, he reckons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“He’s supposed to be after me. So McGonagall reckons he might have sent it.”
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
Olsi reckoned it would probably start up again in the autumn, though, regardless of those survey results.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Combine these suspicions with his all-consuming grief and you can see why Swire is such a force to be reckoned with on his quest for a truth he believes has been denied to him.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
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
Did you find yourself having an existential moment as Jeremy taking in what Carmy was wrestling with, or have you reckoned with it before?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Instead, that position was filled by Mikhail Glinka, whose operas A Life for the Tsar and Ruslan and Lyudmila had firmly established Tsarist Russia as a musical force to be reckoned with in the 1830s.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
In the quieter moments, Malkovich lets us see Chris reckoning with a life spent doing his country’s dirty work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Most believe a reckoning for higher ed is at hand—and that those hard edges may be coming to college campuses next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Her memoir may therefore be less a political reckoning than a defence of belonging - an attempt to explain what the Nehru-Gandhi inheritance has meant to her, and why she believes it still matters.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
These conflicts appeared to be heading for a reckoning, but then things went quiet.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
Thus I have created an opportunity for Lambert to earn back everything I took from the city—a fortune totaling $40 million at my last reckoning.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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