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phenomena

[fi-nom-uh-nuh] / fɪˈnɒm ə nə /
NOUN
something known through senses
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Welikala had stumbled upon one of L.A.’s more unlikely cultural phenomena: Public Assembly theater.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

In January Macleod's eldest daughter captured her first images of the phenomena.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

"Our experimental results indicate that existing theoretical models need to be refined to fully capture the observed phenomena," says Wrachtrup.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026

Hanna Krueger is a New York-based retail reporter for The Wall Street Journal who writes features and investigations on powerful figures, embattled companies and curious phenomena.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026

Studies have been done, in fact, in which experts in a given field have analyzed such random phenomena and come up with cogent “explanations” for the patterns.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos