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phenomena

[fi-nom-uh-nuh] / fɪˈnɒm ə nə /
NOUN
something known through senses
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The same phenomena that we saw in the global financial crisis “are all in place now, again.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

They were worried about El Niño, a planetary dance of weather phenomena that starts with spiking heat in the Pacific and deals out drought and floods across continents.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

By surveying huge areas of the sky and tracking how matter and galaxies are distributed across the cosmos, Roman could give researchers new clues about both phenomena.

From Science Daily Aug. 26, 2026

“There’s a phenomena during El Niños where the waters offshore California get warmer, and they actually rise up, up to a foot, sometimes more, higher than average,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Theories, it is said, explain phenomena, not data, and it is always possible to open up a gap between data and phenomena as well as between phenomena and theories.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton



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