encounters
Example Sentences
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A spate of bear encounters, including at hot spring resorts and in supermarkets last year, sparked alarm, with the government deploying troops to help hunt and trap them.
From Barron's • May 8, 2026
Department policy requires officers to record most public encounters; the officers were accused of turning off their body cameras during critical moments — suggesting they may have been trying to conceal their activities.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
From courtroom standoffs to tense encounters with highway robbers, hats in early modern England carried far more meaning than simple fashion.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
It could touch on patriotism, celebrations, encounters with the police—and more somber investigations of that thing called love.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
The farm has decided to let us do our booth at the festival, and to combine it with some of their resources on alternatives to traps, poisons, and hunting to manage predators and livestock encounters.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
