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phenomenon
noun as in rare occurrence; wonder
Strongest matches
anomaly, aspect, circumstance, episode, event, experience, fact, incident, miracle, paradox, reality, sensation
Strong matches
abnormality, actuality, appearance, curiosity, exception, happening, marvel, nonpareil, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, sight, spectacle, stunner, uniqueness
Weak matches
Example Sentences
If the phenomenon were instead driven by social contagion, we might expect a boom-and-bust pattern: a spike followed by a rapid decline once the social forces driving it weaken.
The worst floods Spain had seen for decades - a phenomenon known by meteorologists as the Dana - killed 229 people in the region, with another eight dying in neighbouring Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia.
Private credit may be a new kitchen-table topic, but it isn’t a new phenomenon.
In “The World at First Light,” Bernd Roeck offers a bold new exploration of the language, and the phenomenon, of cultural rebirth.
By pinpointing an issue where electric charge slightly spreads to neighboring pixels -- a phenomenon called the brighter-fatter effect -- the team designed algorithms that digitally corrected the images, fully restoring AMI's performance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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