phenomenon
Example Sentences
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The Beetle was a sales phenomenon and a pop-culture hit that ushered in the era of mass European auto imports.
Created in 1991 as part of a university assignment, The Wiggles has become an international phenomenon among young children.
From BBC
He’s an extreme case of a phenomenon that has an official name: post-founder syndrome.
But Mr. Sullivan freshens the familiar with shrewd diversions and, above all, the phenomenon of a relentlessly logical investigator confronting a mystery rooted in love and loyalty.
"Instead of happening in that area where people are first settling down with agriculture, it looks like it is much more of an Egyptian phenomenon," said Prof Larson.
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