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Can phenomena be used as a singular?
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- Although it seemed like a fad a few years ago, Twitter has evolved into a phenomena with more than 200 million users …
- —Myron P. Medcalf
Recent Examples of phenomena from the Web
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Fashion designers are always looking to the future, but the trend speaks to current cultural phenomena too, despite the fact that The Matrix was released in 1999.
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Hawking, who suffered from motor neurone disease, was known for his groundbreaking research into black holes and other phenomena.
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Hawking, who suffered from motor neurone disease, was known for his groundbreaking research into black holes and other phenomena.
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Still, this was an observational study, which can only tell us about relationships between phenomena, and not whether one caused the other.
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For a good while there, veteran Senators Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, and Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, were poster people for that rarest of phenomena: serious bipartisan policy-making.
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The great advances in science generally involve discovering a link between phenomena that seemed hitherto conceptually unconnected.
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New research shows that a single phenomena might be behind all eruptions on the sun, including solar flares.
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Despite its accurate description of large scale phenomena such as a planet’s orbit or galaxy dynamics, general relativity breaks down at very short distances.
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First Known Use of phenomena
1708
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