phenomenon
Example Sentences
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How did a gay hockey romance made by a little-known Canadian streamer become a global cultural phenomenon?
From Los Angeles Times
As Mitman noted, the theory does not explain phenomena such as dark energy and dark matter, and it fails when scientists try to reconcile it with the laws that govern the quantum world.
From Science Daily
While most attention has focused on income inequality, that phenomenon is dwarfed by the high and increasing holdings of wealth.
From MarketWatch
A similar phenomenon heats up Santa Ana winds as air from high above the Great Basin descends and races out to sea.
From Los Angeles Times
It was the first sheet music to sell more than one million copies and became a global phenomenon, translated into numerous other languages.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
