phenomenon
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“The phenomenon tends to raise global food commodity prices by up to 9%,” say analysts at Marex, a financial-services company specializing in energy and other commodities.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Dipke said he is committed to trying to transform an online phenomenon into a real-world movement.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
Fifteen years later, the phenomenon caught the curiosity of a scientist from the statistical and biological physics group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
"Because of their enormous mass and compact size, they strongly bend passing light. Starlight from the same host galaxy can be focused into extraordinarily bright images, a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing."
From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026
Isn’t that prominence just an ephemeral phenomenon of the last few centuries, now fading behind the prominence of Japan and Southeast Asia?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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