Example Sentences

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Today, in the podcasting world, Kelly is encountering a different incentive structure.

From Slate • May 6, 2026

Despite boasting a base of over 800 million weekly users, OpenAI is encountering significant competitive pressure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026

Now Reform is in power in local government, it is encountering many of the same financial challenges as its predecessor parties.

From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025

“The picture is much more complex—vulnerability and grandiosity exist in dynamic relation to each other, and they fluctuate according to what the individual is encountering in life, the stage of their own development.”

From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 2023

"I have come some thousand leagues to see her," said he sternly, "through greater fatigues, and, perhaps, as many perils as she is encountering."

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James