phenomenon
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"Instead, the observations are consistent with a different phenomenon known as 'gluon saturation,' predicted by the theory of quantum chromodynamics, which describes the strong force," Tapia Takaki said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
It quickly became a phenomenon after its record-setting premiere in 2024.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
For those of us who haven’t thought about math since high school, the recent events have taught us about Erdős problems, the Jacobian conjecture and a phenomenon known as “finite-time blowup.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Woodward’s piece highlights the recent phenomenon in which holding bonds no longer offers the diversification benefits it did.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
At the most obvious level, these numbers confirmed with enhanced precision the self-evident reality that slavery was a sectional phenomenon that was dying out in the North and flourishing in the South.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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The same phenomena that we saw in the global financial crisis “are all in place now, again.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
They were worried about El Niño, a planetary dance of weather phenomena that starts with spiking heat in the Pacific and deals out drought and floods across continents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Had I accidentally discovered a supernatural portal where time and space didn’t exist, one where random phenomena of blinding beauty could materialize on this plane without any logical explanation?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
"Just like superconductivty, charge density waves are a collective phenomena where electrons move together in certain ways," explains lead author Yifan Su.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Theories, it is said, explain phenomena, not data, and it is always possible to open up a gap between data and phenomena as well as between phenomena and theories.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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And now they are poised to begin that most rare of modern phenomenons - a multi-week tour that includes a proper Test series.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The regional deluge was caused by the combined effect of two weather phenomenons, El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole, said Nazanine Moshiri, a climate analyst at the International Crisis Group.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023
But the story’s been somewhat different from other global phenomenons like Squid Game, whose English subtitles came under fire for being woefully inaccurate.
From The Verge ● May 19, 2022
To be sure, phenomenons are harder to come by these days, as content overload and paywalls slice the audience into thinner portions; all you needed to watch the original version was a television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
Their disappearances were phenomenons that happened every time Hyacinth gave Franz a bath.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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