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When these newly formed regions encounter the boundaries separating neighboring crystals, they produce concentrated areas of stress.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

As yet, there is no word about Carrick's future, although before Saturday's loss, the expectation was he would be in charge for Tuesday's Champions League encounter with Roma.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

He wasn’t the first to encounter them—the Yosemite Native tribes called the trees “wawona,” like the sound made by the northern spotted owl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

McHenry does not mention this encounter in her video and says she decided to leave the arena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The encounter was so brief, however, that they could not honestly say whether they had met Ace Greenberg, or an actor playing Ace Greenberg.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Into this maelstrom of social jockeying Dostoevsky cast the gentle Prince Myshkin, whose lack of guile makes him a figure of fun among the vain and calculating people he encounters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Serrano's career will perhaps be best remembered for her historic rivalry with Ireland's Katie Taylor, who won all three of their encounters.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

She was a jet-setting, president-schmoozing pragmatist, who in unguarded moments spoke mystically about her two youthful encounters with UFOs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Although ideology "matters for symbolic encounters," it is "not that relevant" in practice, according to Oliver Stuenkel, an international relations professor at the FGV.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

One of them allegedly encountered a solitary Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, and shot it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

He had wanted to meet McGee long before they encountered each other in a San Francisco thrift store last year, and he admires his support for less established artists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The changes address a long-simmering grievance among travelers, some of whom have encountered checkout instructions that read less like the end of a vacation and more like the beginning of a Saturday spent doing housework.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

To investigate this unexpected behavior, researchers created an innovative microfluidic chip that recreates the physical conditions encountered by glioblastoma cells.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The world may well be filled with all sorts of surprises, but she was not one to be surprised when she encountered any of them.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

Now 38, Kaepernick has published a memoir titled The Perilous Fight, detailing his childhood in California having been adopted by a white family, encountering racism, and his education and evolution.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

A college dropout, Adams was inspired to start working in public radio after encountering “All Things Considered” as a listener.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026

This behavior, known as one-dimensional pinning-free vortex flow, means the vortices can travel along a defined path without encountering the usual obstacles that restrict their movement.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

AST SpaceMobile’s plan to build the first space-based cellular broadband network is encountering major hurdles.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

Bush had asked Ernest to take on a roving brief for the committee, injecting himself into any area encountering problems as “a sort of fire department.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik