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encounter

[en-koun-ter] / ɛnˈkaʊn tər /
NOUN
brief or unexpected meeting
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These practices point to something central: The ability to encounter another person’s experience with care and attention is a skill, and it can be taught.

From Salon Jul. 30, 2026

Another woman tells the BBC her encounter with the star at a music festival, when she was 14, stopped her from going to concerts altogether.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

The encounter also offered mission scientists a rare chance to test the spacecraft's instruments around a well-studied planet.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

The US leader has since changed his tone and during their last encounter in Turkey earlier this month, he offered words of encouragement, saying he had done "an amazing job".

From Barron's Jul. 28, 2026

At length they talked their way into a face-to-face encounter with the Wall Street legend.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Vonnegut’s openness to serendipitous in-person encounters is exactly the spirit that Nicholas Epley hopes to summon with “A Little More Social,” a cheerful, data-supported apologia for conversation and conviviality.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

The BBC has corroborated a number of the women's accounts with friends and family who were told about the encounters with Leto at the time.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

It was what a competent law enforcement organization should do after repeated fatal encounters.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

He first encounters Fricker’s odd character in Central Park, dressed in oversized, dirty clothing with city birds resting on her head and shoulders.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

I don’t know what I did to deserve two close encounters of the Neil kind in less than a week, but I wasn’t about to question my good fortune.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

All the women say they encountered Leto between 2002 and 2016, when he was in his 30s and 40s.

From BBC Jul. 29, 2026

Earlier in the deposition, Cooper said he had previously intervened when the two rappers encountered each other outside a recording studio.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

And for riders, the experience of navigating a sea of screaming fans that parts only at the last possible instant is unlike anything encountered by other athletes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

After studying terrestrial wildlife, he visited coastal fishing communities in 2018 and encountered what scientists describe as one of the world's least-known conservation crises.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

It was not the same person as the man that Duane encountered, but Duane made the connection nonetheless.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Creating an open dialogue might help her open up about whatever pain point she is repeatedly encountering.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

"When encountering disaster-related information from an unknown source, approach it with scepticism and rely on official announcements," Gao Kai from the Ningbo Public Security Bureau said.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

According to the lawsuit, Walker began filming immigration agents in late March, after encountering a woman being detained in the San Francisco airport.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

As practice for the event of encountering a possible suitor, we urged her to engage in small conversations with nearby men.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri




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