encountered
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More than with any other conspiracy theory I had ever encountered, I needed to know who was responsible.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
Such changes can make infections more severe, and may mean they get past the immune system because people haven't encountered them before.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
During fieldwork one night in 2006, Chris Austin, a professor and curator of herpetology at the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, encountered a snake in New Guinea that he did not recognize.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
What comes after is often preposterous and teeming with cliches — the sort of things you might have encountered in a second-tier series back in the 1980s — and craziness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Digges and Benedetti had not read Bruno, so they had not encountered his theory that, from a distance, the Earth would be indistinguishable from a star.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
