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encounter

[en-koun-ter] / ɛnˈkaʊn tər /
NOUN
brief or unexpected meeting
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When venture capitalist Bradley Tusk dials others and encounters call screening, his first reaction is irritation.

From The Wall Street Journal

For months, it felt difficult to move through cities and towns without encountering it.

From BBC

YouTube, along with Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook, also offers ways to reduce the amount of synthetic imagery their users encounter, but gives no clear-cut filter.

From Barron's

And local officers still take some guff during tense encounters between ICE officers and protesters.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bovino’s men encountered a Spanish-speaking man who claimed to be an American citizen; his father had abducted him as a two-year-old and taken him to Mexico.

From The Wall Street Journal