Example Sentences

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Mr Oliver said the council's housing team was encountering about 60 cases of homelessness each week - which was "very high."

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

"At a certain point, she realised that what she was encountering could become her new role in literature," said Tetyana Teren, executive director of PEN Ukraine, a writers' association.

From Reuters • Jul. 4, 2023

I received an error message indicating the server was encountering rules errors.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2023

For Zhang, the group grew out of a need for a more supportive space than the ones she was encountering in creative-writing classes.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2019

While modern classical music had its challenges, older music was encountering its own difficulties in the twentieth century, despite - or indeed because of - an explosion in recordings in the 1960s.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall