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Examples
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(As a child, Mr. Berggruen met Mr. Picasso with his father, although he says he can't recall the encounter.)
Karstadt's New Owner 2010
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"He said, 'Well, I'm going to let you go because you have the Obama name'" is how the Arlington County resident recalled the encounter.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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"He said, 'Well, I'm going to let you go because you have the Obama name'" is how the Arlington County resident recalled the encounter.
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"I met Joan after I got the part, and it was so scary because it sort of felt like this was the meeting that either fires me or keeps me on," Stewart said, smiling as she recalled the encounter.
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The bears, Iaizzo said, wouldn't recall the encounter.
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The encounter, which had been much in the news those days, was questioned by civil liberty groups, which contented that the central committee members had been picked up by cops in Bangalore and killed in cold blood in the so-called encounter.
The Times of India 2008
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One of the encounters is the dreaded “the party should know to flee this instead of fight” kind of encounter.
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Anybody who has installed a home security camera should be ready for this kind of encounter.
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Sanford, as a Christian fundamentalist, has all sorts of pent up desires and inhibitions which make them more vulnerable to this kind of encounter.
Will Romantic e-mails between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour Maria Help or Hurt Him? 2009
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She said that she and the dogs went back the next day and had a different kind of encounter.
Archive 2006-10-01 Mac 2006
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