brief encounter

collocation in English

meaningsofbriefandencounter

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brief
adjective
uk
/briːf/us
/briːf/
lasting only a short time or containing ...
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encounter
noun[C]
uk
/ɪnˈkaʊn.tər/us
/ɪnˈkaʊn.t̬ɚ/
a meeting, especially one that happens ...
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(Definition ofbriefandencounterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In many ways the model is reminiscent of a state of social anomie, in which isolated individuals without historical ties drift from onebriefencounterto another.
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What are the qualities to be spotted in abriefencounter?
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Extra time for reflection gives more time for the new romance to show itself as abriefencounter.
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I had onebriefencounterwith the local mosquitoes.
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After abriefencounterwith a vengeful pirate, an explosion sound goes off and the boat drops into the pool.
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The object allegedly flew away after theirbriefencounter.
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Like lexs unfinished script, theirbriefencounter, too, remains an unwritten fiction charged with imagined possibility and resigned regret.
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The regime was attempting to use them to repress the mass protests, but after abriefencounterthey ended up joining the protests.
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What follows is abriefencounterof two people very much in love but destined to be apart.
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Little did he realize then the significance of thisbriefencounter.
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How did staff maintain order and fix relations in these brief encounters?
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Thebriefencountercomes at great cost.
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Scared of the bandits that plague these parts, especially after abriefencounterwith them, the two are glad to find an inn in the middle of the forest.
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The patients' expectations, their ideas, have been affected by their brief encounters with 'the girls on the desk'.
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Chapin believed that close and prolonged contact between people was necessary to spread the tubercle infection, rather than brief encounters with the bacilli in the air in the street.
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For the same reason, they spent most of their lives in cages and were permitted only brief encounters with human beings.
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In part, perhaps, because he was so unreconciled to his longings, he limited himself for a long time to brief encounters.
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Frowns also contribute to impressions formed even during brief encounters with other individuals.
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