RECKONING WITH Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

reckoning with

phrase

present participle of reckon with

as in allowing (for)

to give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies) After Scout's emergency surgery, we were forced to reckon with a hefty vet bill.

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Recent Examples of reckoning with Yet amid this public reckoning with the United States’ role in the world, American leaders are out of step with their constituents. — Michael Fuchs, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2026 Four years after the collapse in the market for NFTs, the crypto world is still reckoning with the fallout. — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2026 Instead of overcoming their fatal flaw and defeating their shadow-self, the titular Eternals are reckoning with their relationship to God and the grand arc of human history. — Ew Staff, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026 Residents return For residents returning to the Gironde fire zone, the easing emergency brought a first reckoning with what had been lost. — Thomas Adamson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2026 This discovery stunned de Man’s colleagues and students, and was particularly traumatic for Derrida, who attempted a tortured but ultimately unconvincing reckoning with what his friend had written as a young man. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 To Pärssinen, the findings force a deeper reckoning with humanity’s stewardship of the Amazon today. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 July 2026 In the century that followed, however, some Americans still insisted on reckoning with Washington’s involvement in slavery. — John Garrison Marks, The Atlantic, 25 July 2026 For those of us who are reckoning with our youthful tanning exploits, however, the idea of wearing an oil formula in place of a cream or lotion seems like the antithesis of sun safety. — Kara Nesvig, Allure, 20 July 2026

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taking into account

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An internal skunkworks was set up in California with a brief to rethink the idea of a universal EV platform from the ground up, taking into account the advances made by EV startups and clean-sheet designs both in the US but especially China.

— Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 6 Aug. 2026
Start and end dates are individually determined by Florida school districts, which develop academic calendars by taking into account input from a variety of sources, including calendar committees.

— Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 27 July 2026

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