The phrase "at encountering" is not standard in written English and may sound awkward or incorrect.
It could be used in contexts discussing experiences or reactions upon meeting something for the first time, but it is better to rephrase it for clarity.
Example: "At encountering the unexpected challenge, she paused to reassess her strategy."
Alternatives: "upon encountering" or "when encountering".
The peak came in the Cultural Revolution, when fervent Red Guards sometimes broke into tears at encountering the Chairman's native soil.
Anyone who has been horrified at encountering their glum, ill-prepared countenance in a shop window will know what he means.
I vividly recall my initial excitement, three decades ago, at encountering Frederick Neumann's 630-page tome "Ornamentation in Baroque and Post-Baroque Music" (Princeton University Press, 1978) and thinking that I was about to learn once and for all the rules of the road for embellishing tunes in the Italian, French and German styles.
As I am allergic to "spin" and also, more generally over a lifetime in journalism to banks and what I see as their "culture" problem, imagine my surprise at encountering the new 40 year old Triodos MD a few days ago.
The officer's surprise at encountering Stansbury caused the officer's hand to clench and his weapon to fire.
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Susan is an old hand at encounters like this.
One thing you may not be able to do this year: Grab a bite at Encounter restaurant at the free-standing Theme Building inside Los Angeles International Airport.
Descriptive rates are interpreted for example as "Proportion of patients at encounter who are female".
After age-sex standardisation, only the number of problems and the number of chronic problems managed at encounters were significantly higher than at encounters with non-heavy drinkers (Table 3).
Table 1 illustrates sex and age of patients and details of patient diagnoses at encounter for the overall study period.
