encountered

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This happened during the nationwide #MeToo reckoning, but they still encountered resistance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Those statements echoed the testimony of a farmer who had claimed years earlier that on an evening in April 2004, he had encountered a man driving a sedan with German licence plates.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

It was at Olive Garden that I discovered a shared love for peperoncinos with Nana and encountered other shapes of pasta not named spaghetti for the first time.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 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

In his attempts to advance his son the Duke, Alexander VI encountered many problems, both present and future.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli