encounter

That unexpected encounter with the vibrant cobalt-blue creature led to the formal identification of a new species of Physalia.

BBC Sport looks at the big decisions Wane has faced this week for a crunch encounter with the world champions.

But when Appel later enrolled at Columbia University, eager to learn about the theories behind his activism, the rhetoric he encountered felt more like dogma than inquiry.

When the cartographer James Cheshire stumbled into the room in University College London several years ago, he encountered less a resource for mapping the modern globe than “an epitaph of a world we once knew.”

At the end of the encounter, “something strange happens,” Ning says.