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phenomenon

A phenomenon is a fact or event that you can observe (see or hear or sense), especially one that is not fully understood. But this explanation is not enough to explain the observed phenomena. Football violence is not a particularly new phenomenon, and it isn't only a British problem. These scientists study such phenomena as storms and changing climate. A phenomenon is a person, show, book, etc. that is very popular. nowiki'N Sync/nowiki was something of a pop music phenomenon in the late 90s. Snakes as pets are not a new phenomenon, but they do seem to be growing more popular.

phenomenon

any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning a remarkable development

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Simple sentences

A rainbow is a natural phenomenon.
Lightning is an electrical phenomenon.
The aurora is a phenomenon characteristic of the polar regions.
Acid rain is not a natural phenomenon.
It is to be regretted that comparatively little is known of the phenomenon of fatigue in the central nervous system.
Tom devoted his life to the study of this phenomenon.
Freezing rain is a rather rare meteorological phenomenon.
It's a normal phenomenon.
This phenomenon is very easy to explain.
There is not a physical explanation for this phenomenon yet.
More information is needed to recognize an unexpected phenomenon.
Is it a phenomenon, or a noumenon?
Very little is known about this dangerous phenomenon.
This phenomenon cannot be explained by science.

Movie subtitles

I now grasp the phenomenon, Mr Turner, how you haven't been whiling away in prison all this time -!
A moment ago, I stumbled upon. a most amazing phenomenon, something so incredible. I mistrust my own judgment.
Just a moment ago, I discovered an amazing phenomenon.
Gradually they grew more coherent and logical, and at last we began to get glimpses into the extraordinary phenomenon that was his mind.
A strange phenomenon for which we are very grateful.
Why, the case was written up in the medical journals as the phenomenon of the times.
A phenomenon.
Truly a phenomenon!
So the eyes of the entire nation are now focused upon Governor Stark an amazing phenomenon on the political scene.
Vocal phenomenon.
This phenomenon is humorously referred to as the seven-year itch.
Once you accept the phenomenon of the duration of light in the human retina.
If there is an explanation for your phenomenon, why. They'll find it.
How long will this phenomenon continue?
There's no way this thing is any kind of natural phenomenon.
In what world would a natural phenomenon cause icicles to specifically target us?
A very interesting phenomenon.
The only explanation we have of this remarkable phenomenon. the bearded lady, folks.
Ladies and gentlemen next, we present a musical phenomenon.
I'm convinced that the solution to this horrible deed lies in an understanding of psychic phenomenon.
Thanks to the dream's process the product of this joint action is poured into the dream which is a hallucinating and harmless phenomenon and the dream's continuation is therefore carried out.
IF WE COULD TRIGGER THE SAME PHENOMENON WITHOUT PUTTING YOU IN DANGER.
I was attracted by all that held us together. as well as all that separated us. a phenomenon surely related to physics. but not knowing physics, I called it physical.
This is a well known scientific phenomenon called. Disintegration of matter.
Toto, you're a phenomenon!
Because I believe you are an exceptional man, unique, I would almost say, a phenomenon.
Our story has to do with a 20th-century phenomenon.
It's a sonic boom. Since it flies at supersonic speeds, it's natural that its wings create the phenomenon.
A phenomenon of indecency!
What if, by some bizarre phenomenon, his physical form just melted away?
Don't look at me like that! You are the phenomenon here.
I gave you the medical explanation of an unusual phenomenon.
There's only one phenomenon you haven't the slightest clue about - Iife!

News and current affairs

So the Israelis now must reckon with an entirely new phenomenon: an asymmetric entity, Hezbollah, with nation-state firepower.
Is this a short-term phenomenon?
Nor is the Jewish state of Israel, where Messianic fanatics and religious nationalists have embraced a political theology that questions the very legitimacy of the democratic institutions, immune from this phenomenon.
This is not a novel phenomenon.
I recently participated in a panel discussion of this phenomenon at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Denver.
For example, the phenomenon of failing states, which has affected Asian security the most, is a direct consequence of the Cold War's end.
Berlusconi is a new phenomenon on the European right.
Terrorism is a decentralized phenomenon - in its funding, planning, and execution.
The phenomenon is not limited to the United States.
Block thinking is an age-old phenomenon, and we all do it to some degree.
A particular version of this phenomenon is at work in the European Union.
If it had turned out that chlorine behaved chemically like bromine, the ozone hole would by then have been a global, year-round phenomenon, not just an event of the Antarctic spring.
Perhaps America's opposition to the AIIB is an example of an economic phenomenon that I have often observed: firms want greater competition everywhere except in their own industry.
This phenomenon, too, can be blamed largely on distortionary policies.
Unfortunately, the NATFHE effort is part of a larger phenomenon.
Political Islam is an almost unknown phenomenon in this region (the Islamic Party of Kenya was never registered, for example), and Muslim organizations have mostly focused on welfare and rights.
It took 46 years from the discovery of superconductivity to the 1957 Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer (BCS) theory of how the phenomenon occurs.
But, perhaps as a consequence of concerted efforts to improve the recognition of bipolar disorder, during the past few years we have observed the emergence of an opposite phenomenon - over-diagnosis.
Angelina Jolie puts a famous face on this phenomenon.
Now the European Union has once again failed to respond to the challenge posed by the Haider phenomenon in Austria.
Hence the question on the minds of politicians and economists alike: Is the productivity slowdown a permanent condition and constraint on growth, or is it a transitional phenomenon?
Online discussion of current events, especially through internet bulletin boards, is another new phenomenon.

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