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encounter

[en-koun-ter] / ɛnˈkaʊn tər /
NOUN
brief or unexpected meeting
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It is this backdrop, this history of acrimony, that elevates this encounter above those other semi-finals.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

The researchers also noted that the chimpanzees in this study are accustomed to living around humans and regularly encounter objects that do not exist in the wild.

From Science Daily Jul. 15, 2026

Gov. Janet Mills said she had been briefed on the encounter and that state and federal agencies were investigating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

“They just had a different backstory and a different life because the world was different but you can encounter anyone.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Two years had passed since the day I met Frankie, but our first encounter was engraved in my memory like a knife wound.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In Netflix’s new “Little House on the Prairie” adaptation, the first person that the Ingalls family encounters on their journey to Independence, Kansas, is a Black man.

From Salon Jul. 11, 2026

In this tale, a 9-year-old girl named Ildr, who has recently lost her mother to a plague, encounters a stranger bearing extraordinary inventions such as eyeglasses and a firearm.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Living in a mountain village in northern Greece, retired furrier Dimitris Despas is no stranger to brown bear encounters -- the latest one in his garden just weeks ago.

From Barron's Jul. 9, 2026

This is where archaeology and cultural anthropology become decisive again, because genes are not enough to reconstruct the social scene based on encounters between Neanderthals and Sapiens.

From Science Daily Jul. 7, 2026

It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning: when one encounters them, one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

They also examined whether those effects change when sweeteners are mixed with substances commonly encountered in foods, drinks, and medicines.

From Science Daily Jul. 17, 2026

But that was not the only division he encountered.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2026

Czech pair Karolina Muchova and Linda Noskova - the respective opponents of American two-time major champion Gauff and Ukraine's Kostyuk in Thursday's last-four matches - have also encountered problems.

From BBC Jul. 9, 2026

Anyone who has been a child, a parent or in the proximity of either during the past decade has a good chance of having encountered it.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The main difference this time was that they encountered three groups as they went along.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

However, she said about 90% of the people the charity speaks to report encountering harmful content online.

From BBC Jul. 13, 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

But Kenya’s effort to modernize the system is encountering teething problems.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 5, 2026

Some commuters and bystanders documented encountering the group on public transit and in busy pedestrian areas, with social media posts describing confusion and unease during what was otherwise a heavily trafficked holiday weekend.

From Salon Jul. 5, 2026

In areas such as the Great Plains of North America, where not a single wheat stalk grew 10,000 years ago, you can today walk for hundreds upon hundreds of miles without encountering any other plant.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari




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