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phenomenon

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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.

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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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