encountered

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During Pinky’s broken-wing pit stop, my 10-year-old daughter Margaret Green and friends Ezra Cunningham and Meta Nalepa encountered the bird in a nearby driveway while delivering their neighborhood newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026

The idea of altermagnetism emerged in 2019 when researchers in Mainz encountered behavior that could not be explained by either ferromagnets or antiferromagnets.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

Super Micro encountered a stumbling block in March, when co-founder Wally Liaw and other employees were charged with diverting $2.5 billion worth of Nvidia chips to China.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026

The want Ms. Guillermoprieto encountered when she arrived in Cuba was predictable 10 years earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

It stood defiantly blocking his way, glaring at him with the maddest-Iooking eyes he had ever encountered.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques