encounter

He wasn’t the first to encounter them—the Yosemite Native tribes called the trees “wawona,” like the sound made by the northern spotted owl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Led by scientists at the University of Iowa, the research provides the most detailed observations yet of Jupiter's bow shock, an invisible boundary where particles from the Sun encounter the planet's magnetic environment.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

Under Cohn, yes meant yes; there was no bureaucracy to navigate, no series of endless maybes, as Capra would later encounter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

As well as the team meeting before the Old Trafford encounter, Spurs enjoyed a warm-weather training camp in Marbella, where heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua paid them a visit.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Each of these sub-races is finite and well-defined; we never encounter an infinity.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

The phrase “Renaissance sculpture” usually provokes reminiscences about visits to Florence and memorable encounters with works by Donatello, Ghiberti and Michelangelo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Huerta said the two encounters with Chavez resulted in pregnancies that she chose to keep secret, arranging for the children to be raised by other families.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

She was a jet-setting, president-schmoozing pragmatist, who in unguarded moments spoke mystically about her two youthful encounters with UFOs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Although ideology "matters for symbolic encounters," it is "not that relevant" in practice, according to Oliver Stuenkel, an international relations professor at the FGV.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

After several more encounters Belknap began to appreciate why Myrta had fallen so thoroughly for the man.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

One of them allegedly encountered a solitary Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, and shot it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

He had wanted to meet McGee long before they encountered each other in a San Francisco thrift store last year, and he admires his support for less established artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The changes address a long-simmering grievance among travelers, some of whom have encountered checkout instructions that read less like the end of a vacation and more like the beginning of a Saturday spent doing housework.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

Researchers from the Kunming Institute of Botany encountered the unusual fungus while surveying several forest environments in Yunnan.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

When they encountered turbulence above the North Sea, she clutched her armrest and told herself not to panic.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

Hands-on experiences dominate the new Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center, where encountering artifacts that highlight aerospace history is on equal footing with learning about its future.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

This behavior, known as one-dimensional pinning-free vortex flow, means the vortices can travel along a defined path without encountering the usual obstacles that restrict their movement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

AST SpaceMobile’s plan to build the first space-based cellular broadband network is encountering major hurdles.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

But it cannot offer the particular surprise of encountering another person who has decided, for no reason other than the pleasure of it, to show me something strange and wonderful.

From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026

I mentioned how much I had been encountering Kwang.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee