phenomenon
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Leveraging cuteness to sell products isn’t exactly a new phenomenon — just ask the toy industry, which thrives on getting kids and young adults invested in collecting new cute or cuddly products.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
"We're measuring the interaction of thousands or millions of electrons, and they are all moving together in a coherent way. That's a quantum many-body phenomenon, and it's actually a very weird thing."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
From the 1960s through the early 2000s, the density of microchips doubled roughly every two years, a phenomenon dubbed “Moore’s Law,” and the real price of computers fell roughly 15% per year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Polo is the latest in a busy Pacific storm season turbo-charged by the El Nino weather phenomenon that has caused unprecedented warming in the equatorial Pacific.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
A similar phenomenon had followed slavery and Reconstruction, as white elites struggled to define a new racial order with the understanding that whatever the new order would be, it could not include slavery.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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Their effects have been observed through well established phenomena such as the Lamb shift, spontaneous emission, and the Casimir effect.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
They combined images and seemingly AI-generated speech about urban legends, occult phenomena and conspiracy theories.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"We wanted to see whether this unique shape could also produce any unexpected physical phenomena."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
The same phenomena that we saw in the global financial crisis “are all in place now, again.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Almost never is inductive reasoning taught or are mathematical phenomena studied with an eye toward guessing the relevant properties and rules.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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And now they are poised to begin that most rare of modern phenomenons - a multi-week tour that includes a proper Test series.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
The regional deluge was caused by the combined effect of two weather phenomenons, El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole, said Nazanine Moshiri, a climate analyst at the International Crisis Group.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2023
But the story’s been somewhat different from other global phenomenons like Squid Game, whose English subtitles came under fire for being woefully inaccurate.
From The Verge ● May 19, 2022
To be sure, phenomenons are harder to come by these days, as content overload and paywalls slice the audience into thinner portions; all you needed to watch the original version was a television.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2021
Their disappearances were phenomenons that happened every time Hyacinth gave Franz a bath.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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