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Discover LudwigThe phrase "reckons with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express that someone is faced with or dealing with a particular situation. For example: "The government must reckon with the economic consequences of the pandemic."
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reckons with
verb
Third person singular of reckon with
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All this is before one reckons with the law.
Together, the family reckons with their responsibility to salvage entire species from extinction, including our own.
A writer reckons with fast-fading sumac, coriander, garam masala and other seasonings.
Antrim's memoir reckons with his complicated grief at the death of his emotionally volatile, alcoholic mother.
And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
Twenty years later, Ullman reflects on digital technology's loss of innocence and reckons with all that has changed and so much that hasn't.
A short film shows Ukraine as its new government reckons with the rise of the country's far right.
To D'Angelo, good and evil are not abstract concepts but tangible forces he reckons with every day.
Architecture reckons with the relationship between public and private on the material plane as well as the conceptual one.
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be reckoned with.
The author must reckon with this circumstance.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com