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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

There is also the phenomenon of pareidolia, the tendency to see images of animals, religious figures and other beings in clouds or pieces of toast.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Ekerdt pointed me to a 1988 paper by consumer researcher Russell Belk, who coined the term “extended self” to describe this phenomenon.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

White people blushing is such a scientifically curious phenomenon.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Dillon Amaya, an oceanographer at North Carolina State University, said the elevated sea levels could collide with other natural phenomena to create problems for coastal communities.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Just as importantly, the work shows that the phase space distance method could be used more broadly to search for unfamiliar particles, unusual interactions and other rare phenomena.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

The additional data could also allow researchers to apply more sophisticated quantum information techniques to particle physics, potentially increasing the sensitivity of future searches for previously unknown phenomena.

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

The public came to imagine that physics held the key to all phenomena of the natural world, including the chemical and the biological.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

In the ensuing decades, the country boasted some of the highest standards of living in Latin America as well as some of its lowest crime rates — two phenomenons that its leaders insisted were linked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

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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