phenomenon
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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
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"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
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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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