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Example sentences for: encounter

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We still encounter similar impossibilities with amusing regularity in our adult lives, along with their exact opposites--signs which more than state the obvious, such as Ears pierced while you wait.
This should include discretionary funds for expenditures by military units that often encounter opportunities to help the local population.
In an interview he gave in 1985, he described an early encounter with opera, when he was 13.
A first encounter with Indian music is most likely to be in the pleasant surroundings of a restaurant in one of the major hotels (rather than in what might be the intimidating atmosphere of a large recital hall) where it may be performed as an accompaniment to an elegant dinner, with first-class musicians.
And as I look at the last slip in my random handful, again I encounter a classificatory conundrum: