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phenomenon

[fi-nom-uh-non, -nuhn] / fɪˈnɒm əˌnɒn, -nən /


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This makes the phenomenon potentially important for air quality and climate processes.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

The GI generation, the cohort that became the core of the postwar middlebrow phenomenon, would not have made that mistake.

From Salon • Apr. 19, 2026

So you put all those things together and you end up with a real cultural phenomenon.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

He described a phenomenon that he called "motorsport inflation", adding that he is "amazed" by the number of people able to race with the current costs.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Remarkably, the phenomenon was proved in 1997 when physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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