How to Use phenomena in a Sentence

phenomena

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  • And concern over crime is not a new phenomena for the park.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • To have not known the cause of the phenomena would have been very disconcerting.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
  • But like any celestial phenomena, the darker the skies above, the better the show.
    — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2024
  • But what if the arrow of time looked at phenomena where entropy changes are small?
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Initially, in 2009, the idea was to look at the phenomena of people changing their lives.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Some phenomena are more well-known than others, though, and some are harder to catch.
    — Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online, 14 May 2022
  • Bolsonaro is quick to downplay the phenomena of fire events.
    — Cnn's Camilo Rocha, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Those phenomena could alter the moon's color at any point, though, not just during the blue moon.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The luxury slump has become one of the biggest phenomena of a tight 2023.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Dec. 2023
  • It’s best viewed during a full moon, but the phenomena will continue through much of 2025.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • These phenomena are not seen as having anything like the impact of white men.
    — Chandran Nair, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Other phenomena such as ice balls, ice jams, and even ice bites can also be seen in and along the Great Lakes during winter months.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The Genesee Theatre in Waukegan opened in 1927 and has been the subject of ghost sightings and unexplained phenomena.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • This is in line with the phenomena of self-care and self-preservation as opposed to selfishness.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But as a scholar, he is also intrigued by the use of new kinds of data to explore complex phenomena.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2022
  • There is a fear that the time, energy and money invested will be lost, a phenomena known as the sunk cost fallacy.
    — Lindsay Kohler, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In the face of a rapidly changing world, the preservation of objects, organisms and phenomena takes on a new urgence.
    — Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The message some readers heard in the arrival of these phenomena was a frightening one: Look upon our works, ye mighty, and despair.
    — Laura Hudson, Wired, 16 Nov. 2021
  • The stunning natural phenomena, which looks like flowing lava, is best seen on clear nights when sun strikes at just the right angle.
    — Radhika Chalasani, ABC News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Here are some types of tornadoes – and other, much smaller phenomena that spin up like tornadoes – and how to tell them apart.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Yusef-Zadeh and his research team focused solely on the strands and isolated them from the other phenomena captured in the image.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • From the inception of JWST, the primary goal has been to glimpse these phenomena—the first luminous objects in the universe.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Young Palestinians who took part in protests last year see no contradictions in the two phenomena.
    — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2022
  • In the future, Webb may take a closer look at the planet, digging deeper into the phenomena that cover its surface.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 Sep. 2022
  • This study could help predict the exact phenomena that caused the bewitching phenomena in the first place.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
  • Avilés said that the destruction of homes, the loss of jobs or businesses, and overt poverty, all caused by these phenomena, are why many people have decided to leave the island.
    — Camila Pedrosa, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2022
  • That’s according to new and old research on the phenomena of sinking land — also known as subsidence — along the entire U.S. coast.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
  • It’s been able to predict and explain a huge amount of scientific phenomena.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Together, the two phenomena could have caused the Great Dying, and the catastrophic extinctions began on land before occurring in the ocean.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The films blend in-depth artist profiles with examinations of past and current cultural phenomena, looking at music, politics, and more.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024

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