encounter
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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
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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
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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
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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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