phenomenon

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The vow was the most recent example of a phenomenon taking over on Wall Street: how some of the world’s very richest are bringing their smallest problems to the masses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

“We didn’t know it would be the phenomenon it became.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

The phenomenon is "something that we have not witnessed often," the mission's backup astronaut Jenni Gibbons told AFP.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

"I was covering K-pop before it was this gigantic world phenomenon," Schwartz says.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

At the most obvious level, these numbers confirmed with enhanced precision the self-evident reality that slavery was a sectional phenomenon that was dying out in the North and flourishing in the South.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis