phenomenon
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They found that the decline in birth rates accelerated once smartphones became widely available -- a phenomenon found across countries "with fundamentally different healthcare, welfare, economic, and cultural environments."
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
“The phenomenon tends to raise global food commodity prices by up to 9%,” say analysts at Marex, a financial-services company specializing in energy and other commodities.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Fifteen years later, the phenomenon caught the curiosity of a scientist from the statistical and biological physics group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
He either swats away shot attempts or, more often, makes would-be shooters run away in terror before they even look at the rim—a phenomenon known as the “Nope.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026
I tried to trace it back to the original poster but eventually gave up—Space Boy had become an international phenomenon.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
Vocabulary lists containing phenomenon
TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Vocabulary from the Introduction to "Reality is Broken" by Jane McGonigal
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