phenomenon
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Their goal was to track down Florida's near-daily summer thunderstorms and observe a phenomenon that had never been confirmed outside a laboratory.
From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026
As rising temperatures are shifting natural plant cycles, species that synchronise their migration or hibernation can be left without the flowers and plants they rely on – a phenomenon known as ecological mismatch.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
The GI generation, the cohort that became the core of the postwar middlebrow phenomenon, would not have made that mistake.
From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026
So you put all those things together and you end up with a real cultural phenomenon.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026
The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing phenomenon
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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