Encounter and Join

Encounter

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

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

Nearby Words: encountered, encountering

Join verb - To be adjacent to.

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Encounter and join are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encounter" instead a verb "Join".

Nearby Words: joined, joining

group	encounter group	join group
band	encounter band	join band
team	encounter team	join team
army	encounter army	join army
Other words: time, tribe, game, forces, friends, heroes.

This led to volume four, following Terry as Batman in the years after the end of the animated series, and has him re-encounter and join the Justice League.

Source: Comicbook / Batman Beyond
Spiegal to Recon: Invites a classmate whom he has a crush on to join him in a VRMMORPG and confesses his love to said classmate after she has a messed-up encounter with Kirito.

Source: Light Novel / Sword Art Online
Fighter-types running headlong into encounter after encounter, thus forcing you to abandon what you were doing to join in, makes some amount of sense.

Source: Artificial Stupidity / RPG

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