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phenomenon

[fi-nom-uh-non, -nuhn] / fɪˈnɒm əˌnɒn, -nən /


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The developing El Niño climate phenomenon is now the strongest on record, according to scientists monitoring the Pacific, with ocean temperatures about 3.05C above average.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Panama has declared a nationwide emergency over the exceptionally strong El Nino, a warming phenomenon developing over the Pacific Ocean that is affecting worldwide weather patterns.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

Manthey calls this the “steady market, violent rotation” phenomenon.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

The phenomenon of control by these non-state actors is sometimes known as “stationary banditry,” an activity more akin to farming than the traditional image of criminals as hunting prey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

It’s the Mona Lisa phenomenon only because we’ve bothered to notice it in the Mona Lisa.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

We are reminded that Siena, as a major stop on the heavily traveled pilgrimage route from Northern Europe to Rome, frequently received news of phenomena occurring elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Successive dynasties employed specialists to monitor celestial events because unusual phenomena in the sky were often interpreted as omens.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

Of the 28 files about unidentified anomalous phenomena released Friday, four of them detail bizarre sightings from Catalina during the 1940s and 1950s, including one of “flying saucers” spotted by three Boy Scouts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Altermagnetism represents a previously unrecognized symmetry class of matter and has revealed unexpected connections to several major areas of modern physics, including topological phenomena, unconventional superconductivity, and quantum materials with strong interactions between electrons.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The public came to imagine that physics held the key to all phenomena of the natural world, including the chemical and the biological.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

But I don’t think that there is as serious a conversation about those sorts of layman’s interactions with these phenomenons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2023

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

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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