encounter
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The programme will showcase the wildlife "people can expect to see and encounter whilst they're outside", said Packham.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026
One in five American adults has had an intimate encounter with AI, according to an MIT study, increasing the risk that some users believe AI is conscious and advocating for rights or moral status.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
The encounter started with the Swiss wrestlers trading in their usual getups for Senegalese wrestling attire.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
But it offers physicists a new possibility for solving one of cosmology's deepest mysteries: how matter survived when its encounter with antimatter could have left the universe almost entirely empty.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
This encounter with Hesterfowl could be delicate: a conversation between two servants of the all-knowing universe.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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But all the evident sidestepping Mr. Berkes encounters among mining officials is countered by the very emotional interviews done with the miners themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Several were shut down after Voyager completed its encounters with the outer planets, while others remained active to investigate increasingly distant regions of space.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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
And though she needed to know what it was exactly that he was accusing her of, she knew he had not told the agent of those encounters.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
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He saved his harshest comments for the Germans he encountered while painting in the south of France.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Combined with archaeological discoveries, the evidence strengthens the possibility that Isturitz Cave served as a gathering place where different groups of prehistoric people encountered one another.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Investigators have not determined yet who was flying the plane when it encountered trouble.
From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026
Police had received a report of shots fired and encountered a crowd of approximately 300 people at the party.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026
When the Dutch biologist Hugo de Vries encountered the concept of the gene in the 1890s, he quickly intuited that the idea would reorganize our understanding of the natural world.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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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
But it cannot offer the particular surprise of encountering another person who has decided, for no reason other than the pleasure of it, to show me something strange and wonderful.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The agency told drivers: “Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads,” as most flood deaths occur in vehicles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
An armor-plated military vehicle encountering no greater obstacle than a lost roller skate.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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