Debate
Encounter
Encounter noun - A brief clash between enemies or rivals.
Debate and encounter are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Debate" instead the word "Encounter" as a noun or a verb.
Nearby Words: encountered, encountering
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| close | close debate | close encounter |
| similar | similar debate | similar encounter |
| normal | normal debate | normal encounter |
| common | common debate | common encounter |
| Other adjectives: brief, actual, entire, real, little, interesting, new, major, last. | ||
Common collocations
| people | debate people | encounter people |
Both words in one sentence
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No Biochemical Barriers: Averted with regards to food, as the humans debate and ultimately decide against trying to eat any of the plant or animal life they encounter.
Source: Video Game / The Dig -
There are a lot of otherwise intelligent people who think From the Message Boards (a parody of Internet arguments which contains everything you'd encounter in a real Internet debate) is genuine.
Source: Poe's Law -
In X-Men, at least one X-Babies encounter ("Mojo Mayhem") has gone this way (with arguing murmurs written as "argue" or "debate" or "mutter" and the like.)
Source: Unsound Effect
Cite this Source
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