encounter
Example Sentences
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Neves Valente said he expected authorities to find him quickly after an encounter with someone at Brown who saw his car’s license plate.
It doesn’t want to spend money vaccinating children against bugs they are unlikely to encounter, even if they could be hospitalized if they do.
Network Rail said it had been able to clear the Aberdeen- Inverness line by Tuesday evening, despite its teams encountering some "appalling conditions" around Insch.
From BBC
But the betting here is that a viewer will be preoccupied by thinking about the multitude of head injuries someone like Robby would encounter in the E.R., and why he doesn’t wear a helmet himself.
The company later acknowledged its vehicles occasionally “require a confirmation check” from humans when they encounter blacked-out traffic signals or other confounding situations.
From Los Angeles Times
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