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encounter

[en-koun-ter] / ɛnˈkaʊn tər /
NOUN
brief or unexpected meeting
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This article is adapted from “Seductive AI,” forthcoming Tuesday from Encounter Books.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

Encounter figures are the closest comparable data Scotland has to the number of GP appointments.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

“They can still accuse anyone of anything they want to exclude them from this amnesty law,” said Martha Tineo, coordinator for Justice, Encounter and Pardon, a nonprofit working with families of Venezuelan prisoners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Encounter someone who saw “Star Trek: The Experience” in Las Vegas, which opened in the late ’90s and ran for about a decade, and expect nostalgic reflections of running aboard the U.S.S.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2025

C. Be it so, but I hope you will be as obliging to me, next Encounter, as I have been to you this.

From The Laird o' Coul's Ghost by Anonymous




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