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phenomena

[fi-nom-uh-nuh] / fɪˈnɒm ə nə /
NOUN
something known through senses
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Thanks to its infrared vision, the telescope will be able to observe light emitted by celestial bodies billions of years ago, effectively looking back in time to hopefully discover more about the two phenomena.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Seen through this lens, contemporary phenomena that appear baffling begin to make sense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

An uncontrolled, sudden increase in voltage in the system "on a day with multiple concurrent phenomena" led to instability and "cascading generation", it said.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

Welikala had stumbled upon one of L.A.’s more unlikely cultural phenomena: Public Assembly theater.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

But in the case of the geometrical sciences of the seventeenth century the gaps between data and phenomena, and between phenomena and theories, are intended to be virtually non-existent.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton