phenomenon

Example Sentences

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Another local phenomenon is legal abuse, which affects insurance premiums and other business costs that ultimately get passed onto consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal

“What Cuba is going through—a phenomenon I call demographic hollowing out—is nothing less than a humanitarian disaster only seen in countries in armed conflict,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Within weeks of the boat’s unveiling in June, The Louis had become a social-media phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it would also deprive China’s most valuable private company of total control of an American social media phenomenon.

From Los Angeles Times

It won’t be easy to move away from reflexively dismissing some irritating phenomenon by saying “good old Gen Z” or “OK boomer,” but we could definitely use less branding in this deeply divided society.

From Salon