encountered

Example Sentences

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Hernandez’s council colleague Hugo Soto-Martínez encountered a similar issue.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

“I have not encountered a single person who’s said, ‘Wow, this is going to be a great thing for us,’ outside of public officials.”

From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026

The findings, published in Neuropsychopharmacology, reveal how caffeine acts on a well-defined brain pathway involved in social memory, the ability to recognize and distinguish people we have encountered before.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

Eliot, British only by adoption, the “pernicious effects” of whose work he encountered daily among his students at Yale.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

As federal judge Prentiss Marshall explained, “The average person encountered will feel obliged to stop and respond. Few will feel that they can walk away or refuse to answer.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander