encounters

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A spate of bear encounters, including at hot spring resorts and in supermarkets last year, sparked alarm, with the government deploying troops to help hunt and trap them.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

From courtroom standoffs to tense encounters with highway robbers, hats in early modern England carried far more meaning than simple fashion.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

It could touch on patriotism, celebrations, encounters with the police—and more somber investigations of that thing called love.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Le Azzurre have got progressively closer to England over their most recent Women's Six Nations encounters, losing by a margin of 74, 63, 48 and 33 points respectively in their matches between 2022 and 2025.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

It remains for us to consider the encounters of New Guinea’s and Australia’s Stone Age societies with Iron Age Europeans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond