encounter
Example Sentences
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Rewatching “E.T.” at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, I still wanted to believe that an encounter with an alien intelligence could elevate us.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
Last year, Comstock said she and her husband had a negative encounter at Griffith Park as they pushed their daughters around in strollers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
"Peng and colleagues' encounter with a vast fossil graveyard is a truly unique discovery," Stephen J Godfrey of the Calvert Marine Museum wrote in Nature.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
When you first encounter an act with the name Tara Clerkin Trio, you might assume it’s a jazz outfit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Fine would later write that Bobby “was not yet strong opposition. My family remembers how furious he was after each encounter, muttering that I was ‘lucky.’”
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing encounter
Against All Odds: Contra and Counter
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Much Ado About Nothing
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