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phenomenon

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


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In areas like Weston-super-Mare, Bath, Bristol, Cheltenham and Warminster people gathered to watch the phenomenon with special glasses, alongside DIY viewers who looked through cereal boxes and colanders.

From BBC Aug. 12, 2026

The Arctic is warming several times faster than the global average, a phenomenon known as "Arctic amplification" -- and the effects aren't confined to the North Pole.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Some of the urchin phenomenon can be traced to social media, of course, and the way it can turn a product into a viral craze via TikTok, Instagram and the like.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

K-pop is a global phenomenon, but are there other aspects of K-culture that took you by surprise with its popularity in the U.S.?

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

A grandson could be born with his grandmother’s nose or her skin color, without that feature being visible in either parent—a phenomenon virtually impossible to explain in terms of Pythagoras’s scheme of purely patrilineal heredity.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

"There are moments when nature and the intensity of weather phenomena surpass any human planning and any operational capability."

From Barron's Aug. 2, 2026

Unlike psychology, which operates on an individual level, sociology considers human phenomena in the aggregate and often over the long run.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

In the 50 years that have followed, audiences have become somewhat less susceptible to scares, but no less susceptible to phenomena.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

The phenomena were observed earlier this month thanks to monsoon moisture coming from the south and bringing midlevel clouds.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

The tendency to attribute meaning to phenomena governed only by chance is ubiquitous.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

Jamie Harrison and Chris Fisher tell The Times about creating wand duels and on-demand nosebleeds to bring two global phenomenons to the stage.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 10, 2025

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

When the show debuted twelve years, social media apps like Twitter and Instagram were on the precipice of becoming the cultural phenomenons they are today.

From Fox News Sep. 18, 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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