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Verb encounter has 5 senses
- meet, ran into, encounter, run across, come across, see - come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!"
 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
 Something ----s something 
 - find, happen, chance, bump, encounter - come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 - run into, encounter - be beset by; "The project ran into numerous financial difficulties"
 
--3 is one way to be 
Sample sentence: 
 Something ----s something 
 - meet, encounter, receive - experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition"
 
--4 is one way to have, experience 
Sample sentences: 
 Somebody ----s something 
 Something ----s something 
 - meet, encounter, play, take on - contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary"
 
Sample sentence: 
 Somebody ----s somebody 
  
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