phenomena
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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
"Our experimental results indicate that existing theoretical models need to be refined to fully capture the observed phenomena," says Wrachtrup.
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026
He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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