phenomenon
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I wrote about this same phenomenon in early 2024, when the S&P 500 finally broke through its previous record.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
According to news media materials, in the sixth installment of the romantasy phenomenon, “what was broken will be remade.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Salt Path became a global phenomenon, but the story behind the book may be even more remarkable.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
He told the conference: "We discovered what we think is a black hole merging with a massive companion star, shredding it into a disk that feeds the black hole. It's a rare and awe-inspiring phenomenon."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
He was so used to the wandering attention of his fellow classmates that the phenomenon here thrilled him.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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Gregory thinks of how Iceland's first settlers must have felt witnessing such a phenomena more than a millennium ago, a time of mythological rather than scientific explanation.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
"These phenomena follow a regular cycle, peaking every 11 years," Brun said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
One of the phenomena examined in “Out of Time” is why more Pompeiians didn’t flee during or after the foreshadowing earthquakes, and that’s a fascinating area of study all its own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
The phenomena were observed earlier this month thanks to monsoon moisture coming from the south and bringing midlevel clouds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
We thus have many different phenomena converging on the same conclusion: that food production spread more readily out of Southwest Asia than in the Americas, and possibly also than in sub-Saharan Africa.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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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
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
But the story’s been somewhat different from other global phenomenons like Squid Game, whose English subtitles came under fire for being woefully inaccurate.
From The Verge ● May 19, 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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Vocabulary lists containing phenomenon
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