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phenomenon

[fi-nom-uh-non, -nuhn] / fɪˈnɒm əˌnɒn, -nən /


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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said the phenomenon was caused by "severe" thunderstorms and that it was "very uncommon to see one in such a populated place".

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

"We're measuring the interaction of thousands or millions of electrons, and they are all moving together in a coherent way. That's a quantum many-body phenomenon, and it's actually a very weird thing."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

From the 1960s through the early 2000s, the density of microchips doubled roughly every two years, a phenomenon dubbed “Moore’s Law,” and the real price of computers fell roughly 15% per year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Strategists like Bank of America’s Michael Hartnett have described the ‘Anything But Bonds’ phenomenon since the pandemic whereby U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

The phenomenon was called variation—animals occasionally produced offspring with features different from the parental type.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The anonymous account, whose picture resembled a "Jujutsu Kaisen" character dubbed by Tsuda, combined images and seemingly AI-generated speech about urban legends, occult phenomena and conspiracy theories.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Together with the upgraded High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider, these improvements are expected to provide vastly larger data sets and give physicists new opportunities to investigate quantum phenomena at extreme energies.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

The same phenomena that we saw in the global financial crisis “are all in place now, again.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

"This gives us a new method for studying black-hole-related phenomena that could previously not be analyzed analytically."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Besides, Blanca was not given to psychic experiments; even though she had always been extremely close to her mother, she had never shown the slightest curiosity for mental phenomena.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

And now they are poised to begin that most rare of modern phenomenons - a multi-week tour that includes a proper Test series.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The regional deluge was caused by the combined effect of two weather phenomenons, El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole, said Nazanine Moshiri, a climate analyst at the International Crisis Group.

From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023

To better understand some of these new-sounding weather phenomenons, Times staff dived into the archives to see how long these phrases have made the news, and asked experts about their scientific origins and true meaning.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

The former president scored a nod for outstanding narrator for his work on Netflix’s “Our Great National Parks,” a five-part docuseries that spans five continents and the natural phenomenons that make them beautiful.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2022

Their disappearances were phenomenons that happened every time Hyacinth gave Franz a bath.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser




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