phenomena
Example Sentences
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“There’s a phenomena during El Niños where the waters offshore California get warmer, and they actually rise up, up to a foot, sometimes more, higher than average,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Gregory thinks of how Iceland's first settlers must have felt witnessing such a phenomena more than a millennium ago, a time of mythological rather than scientific explanation.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"These phenomena follow a regular cycle, peaking every 11 years," Brun said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
Unlike psychology, which operates on an individual level, sociology considers human phenomena in the aggregate and often over the long run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
