And what those children encounter in the system is often hard for them to understand.

My children have encountered better teachers, on the whole, in the public schools.

Certainly they must have encountered such problems in the past.

I seem to have encountered most of these guys in the past year.

I am everything that your mind might not have encountered in life.

This was someone else he had encountered in the past year.

Or had he simply encountered it too often in his life?

Nor had she ever encountered him in his true form.

He encountered three women in their 30's, the police said.

On another night we had the worst service I've encountered in years.