Encounter and Hack

Encounter

Encounter verb - To come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face.

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Hack and encounter are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hack" instead a verb "Encounter".

Nearby Words: encountered, encountering

Hack verb - To deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently.

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Encounter and hack are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encounter" instead a verb "Hack".

Nearby Words: hacked, hacking, hacker, hackery

special	special encounter	special hack
similar	similar encounter	similar hack
typical	typical encounter	typical hack
original	original encounter	original hack
Other adjectives: initial, single, difficult, simple, little, bad, interesting, major, minor, last.

people	encounter people	hack people
team	encounter team	hack team
army	encounter army	hack army
time	encounter time	hack time
Other words: door, monster, ship, enemy, times, enemies.

Not quite an encounter, but in the game .hack//Quarantine there is a field on the Omega Server where you can see Santa flying through the air in his sleigh.

Source: Surprise Santa Encounter
The .hack series makes up for its lack of any single, solid example of this trope by making quite a few of the enemies you encounter borderline examples.

Source: Demonic Spiders / Role-Playing Games
Lovecraft ironically enough is only regarded as a hack writer (though it appears he had one genuine encounter with an Eldritch Abomination).

Source: Literature / The Laundry Series

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