The phrase "encountered via" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a common phrase used to indicate how something was encountered or discovered. It is typically used in formal or academic writing. Example: I encountered the information about the new company policy via the company's email newsletter.
Sometimes it seems like half the exciting, left-of-centre acts to visit the city are first encountered via their enthusiastic efforts.
This study develops a rule-based expert system (RBES) to generate sensor deployment strategies with no computational burden as we oftentimes encountered via various types of optimization analyses.
If you are suing a dishonest friend, a crooked lettings agent, or a dodgy financial adviser, all of whom I have recently encountered via Citizens Advice, getting judgment is no guarantee of getting paid.
But I faced no such indecision the other day when I encountered, via social media, My Very Own Shop N Pay Market, a toy self-checkout machine produced by the appropriately named company American Plastic Toys.
GeoSpark (India) GeoSpark (previously known as Holo) is a startup born out of a problem encountered via the earlier location-based messaging app idea.
More importantly, media content is increasingly being encountered via algorithmically driven tech platforms — whose AIs apparently can't distinguish between deliberately skewed disinformation and genuine reportage.
As a fictional invention, the autodidact aesthete Robinson, whom we only ever encounter via the films' narrators' vexed relations with him, is an absurd sort of wraith, tricked up from reminders of Defoe and Céline, but surely also a descendant of the Regency showman Robertson, inventor of the proto-cinematic phantasmagoria.
Evaluating the barrage of various opinions and 'facts' we encounter via social media and other outlets, it is important to be able to analyze the information completely and accurately in order to make reasoned decisions on issues that will impact our lives.
Loud-calls were elicited by presenting species-specific loud calls given during group encounters via a loudspeaker (Davidactive, Visonik) and a Marantz digital solid state recorder (PMD 660; sampling rate: 44.1 kHz, 16 bit amplitude resolution) hidden in the vegetation.
In recent years the setting of male sex work in western countries has shifted towards a subculture of men having paid sexual contacts with men who they encounter via the internet [ 2].
(Many in the West encountered him via his recent exhibit at the Tate — a room of porcelain sunflower seeds).
