Word: reckon
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...What Leni does not fully reckon with, perhaps because she's inured to their weirdness, is that her relatives are all freaking nuts. Her sister works part time as a belly dancer, but spends most of her life cheerfully picking up inappropriate men. Her young daughter wears a pillow under her skirt pretending to be pregnant. The teen-aged brother has embraced strict religious orthodoxy and keeps interrupting the smooth flow of social events on this Sabbath evening by taping over the light switches and hiding everyone's cell phones; there is to be no electronic interference with true belief...
...This had been their year to make the tournament, their year to show the national lacrosse community that the Crimson was a force to reckon with...
It’s simply not reasonable to expect either recruited athletes or their non-athlete classmates to pretend they don’t know about the very different ways they arrived at Harvard. If Lewis wants these two groups to respect each other, he must reckon with the College’s own role in fostering, through its parallel admissions tracks, a climate in which athletes and non-athletes often do not think of one another as genuine peers. It is those admissions practices, far more than any lingering fondness for 19th-century British notions about amateurism, which perpetuate...
Despite being only a sophomore, Ungar has become a force to reckon with in the men’s epee event...
...just getting better every single week,” Cohen said. “Athletically he’s playing way above his level and he’s getting his legs under him. He’s going to be a force to reckon with later in the season...