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See and meet Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:24 am  See and meet
 

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Theoretically, both sentences could mean the same thing.
A native speaker probably wouldn't ever use sentence b.
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Meet vs. see Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:47 am  Meet vs. see
 

Hi,

Meet is acceptable in your sentence in the sense of come across. It sounds a bit pretentious though. If you do use it in that sense, I think you have to make the object a little fuller as in:

In the course of your reading you will probably meet many examples of phrasal verbs.

It still sounds a bit teacherish to me and also patronising.

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