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reckon with

Deal with, as in Your lost wallet isn't the only problem we have to reckon with . Also see take into account .
Take into account, be prepared for, as in The third-party movement is a force to be reckoned with during the primaries . This usage was first recorded in 1885.

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At the same time, India must reckon with the security failures that allowed the attack to happen in the first place.

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But making the main hero of "The Last of Us" the target of righteous vendetta invites viewers to reckon with the concept of justice long prescribed in Westerns.

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But until now, it has at least had the opportunity to arrive afterward; to ask what happened, weigh the facts, and reckon with the power used.

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And until courts are forced to reckon with that, their analysis will remain incomplete—formally precise but morally vacant.

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But in her nerve-racked attempt to re-home Apollo while seeing to his needs, Iris is forced to reckon with what this 100-plus pounds of solemnity really is: an embodiment of Walter, sure, but also a creature just as grieving, blocked and lost as she is.

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