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encounter
B2Academic AWL-10Frequent NGSL-2a meeting, especially one that is sudden, unexpected or violent
to experience something, especially something unpleasant or difficult, while you are trying to do something else
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An encounter with another interior, taking my most vital and most urgent questions, trusting them to that thread and sending them out to other selves.
Han Kang's Nobel Prize Banquet Speech (2024)
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
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