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encounter

[en-koun-ter] / ɛnˈkaʊn tər /
NOUN
brief or unexpected meeting
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Westminster Magistrates' Court heard parts of Mountbatten-Windsor's witness statement - which is due to form the centrepiece of both legal proceedings - in which he described the encounter.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

Saxberger is to be the star attraction, and those who have never heard of him are about to encounter neglected greatness.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Three years ago, Thailand's then-foreign minister Don Pramudwinai met with Suu Kyi in private for more than an hour, her last known encounter with a foreign envoy since her detention.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

The encounter took place before the most recent major movement of Homo sapiens out of Africa and into Europe and Asia.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

Their encounter felt increasingly dreamlike, though Koffi knew absolutely that it had happened.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Ms. Fernando, an environmental historian at Stony Brook University, writes about the encounters between what she characterizes as colonial and precolonial forms of knowledge during this period.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

He also makes children’s toys that he distributes to any children on the block or that he encounters out and about.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 2026

However, the ghost population exchanged genes with modern humans at an earlier point than the Neanderthal and Denisovan encounters outside Africa.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

A long-awaited fight between Joshua and fellow Briton Tyson Fury is expected to take place later in the year - if both men win their respective encounters.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Benevolent encounters have not been the rule in human history, where transcultural contacts have been direct and physical, quite different from the receipt of a radio signal, a contact as light as a kiss.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

A student named Zane Glassock encountered a table in Central Park.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

They were encountered by Spanish soldiers who first trudged and trekked north in the 1770s.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

Modern humans who left Africa roughly 50,000 years ago encountered Neanderthals and Denisovans in Eurasia and interbred with both groups.

From Science Daily Aug. 1, 2026

She’s also encountered people who own expensive coffee machines even though they don’t even drink coffee.

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

Theodoric’s analysis depended partly on examining rainbow-like images that he encountered in daily life: in the spray thrown up by a turning water-wheel, in the drops of dew on a spider’s web.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The father of three travels widely, often encountering bewildered questions about why Jews opt to live in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Creating an open dialogue might help her open up about whatever pain point she is repeatedly encountering.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

However, she said about 90% of the people the charity speaks to report encountering harmful content online.

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

The study states that the false belief has led "to negative consequences, including misinformed risk‐taking by those encountering snakes, unwarranted fear among snakebite victims, and inappropriate care delivered by misinformed or patient/family‐pressured medical professionals."

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 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




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