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meets

/miːts/ preposition A1
  1. Forming a combination or nexus of. · The taste of an eggplant could be described as pepper meets tomato.
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“Rather a long time between meets, though, it seems to me.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 23 · C1
Affectation of candour is common enough; one meets with it everywhere.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 14 · B2
“A lie, Watson—a great, big, thumping, obtrusive, uncompromising lie—that’s what meets us on the threshold!
The Valley of Fear, p. 66 · C1
And yet, consider that every Baskerville who goes there meets with an evil fate.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 28 · C1

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