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

"Not many researchers are looking for phenomena in this way, which means that all kinds of discoveries are potentially up for grabs."

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

More surprisingly perhaps, there are no facts in Robert Boyle’s New Experiments of 1660, his first account of the air-pump experiments, only phenomena.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton