Definitions

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  • noun A second or subsequent encounter
  • noun A hostile encounter
  • verb To encounter again
  • verb To encounter in a hostile manner

Etymologies

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From re- +‎ encounter. Compare rencounter.

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Examples

  • We also re-encounter some colorful secondary characters from The Edge of the World in quite interesting roles here.

    "The Map of All Things" by Kevin J. Anderson (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • But since September, pastors nationwide say they have seen such a burst of new interest that they find themselves contending with powerful conflicting emotions -- deep empathy and quiet excitement -- as they re-encounter an old piece of religious lore:

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • His remark would have been okay, even flattering, if I had been able to accept just how exotic I was not at this newly-divorced re-encounter.

    Susan Orlins: Throw Yourself a Divorce Party -- Worrywart's Do's and Don'ts 2010

  • His remark would have been okay, even flattering, if I had been able to accept just how exotic I was not at this newly-divorced re-encounter.

    Susan Orlins: Throw Yourself a Divorce Party -- Worrywart's Do's and Don'ts 2010

  • Here's where things get interesting: Cleaner fish only took such bites -- which were visible because the other fish jumped when bitten -- when they were in distant parts of their home range and therefore were unlikely to re-encounter the fish involved.

    Tropical fish seems able to think ahead, according to researchers 2010

  • In this second book in the series, we re-encounter the original players although we see less of Zlabya and meet exotic new ones.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • For veteran IM Banks readers there are a lot of allusions to his Culture novels and their themes, and you will re-encounter Diziet Sma's arguments with Zakalwe about the "morality of intervention vs non-intervention" from Use of Weapons, or GCU's Grey Area' sense of justice and its implacable execution from Excession as well as quite a few other similar tidbits.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Cindy 2009

  • It's a drag that the read-to child perpetually will have to re-encounter the message that "money makes kids recover from terrible illness" -- as broadcast by the sticker on the cover of the finished book (a gold sticker I suppose).

    . . . or we will shoot this dog. Roger Sutton 2007

  • Buena Vista was one of the first ways that Americans began to re-encounter Cuban culture.

    Modiba: Cuban Musicians Help Thaw US-Cuba Relations 2009

  • In this second book in the series, we re-encounter the original players although we see less of Zlabya and meet exotic new ones.

    The Rabbi's Cat 2 and the Renewal of Reading 2009

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