variants
or phenomenons
as in prodigies
something extraordinary or surprising
our jaws dropped when we saw this basketball phenomenon play for the first time
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Recent Examples of phenomena
So, an ensemble of realizations for the same phenomena.
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Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2025
Researchers from Boston and Chicago, who co-authored a paper on the phenomena in September of 2021, suggested the stresses and pressures of the pandemic could have been to blame as the nation experienced an overall uptick in several types of violent crime.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
This is not a new phenomena of the world feeling so vivid, so extreme, that finding an angle of approach is hard.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Congress ordered the report, which spanned classified and unclassified documents and included new interviews, as part of a probe into the history of UFOs, now referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 25 May 2025
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Quanta Magazine, 10 July 2025
Researchers from Boston and Chicago, who co-authored a paper on the phenomena in September of 2021, suggested the stresses and pressures of the pandemic could have been to blame as the nation experienced an overall uptick in several types of violent crime.
—Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
This is not a new phenomena of the world feeling so vivid, so extreme, that finding an angle of approach is hard.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
Congress ordered the report, which spanned classified and unclassified documents and included new interviews, as part of a probe into the history of UFOs, now referred to as unidentified anomalous phenomena.
—Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for phenomena
Noun
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While many bemoan that American fashion shows lack the luster of yesteryear, Malena Belafonte is trying to rejigger the tried-and-true by blending runway looks, live music and circus-like spectacles.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
WWD,
18 Dec. 2024
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Las Vegas has always been big on one-off spectacles, from heavyweight fights to stunts to special events, and this remains the case, but the ante has been upped with the growth of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), often holding the biggest bouts here, and made for TV pro golf events such as The Match.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes,
13 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Many of them were engineering marvels, with state-of-the-art mills, engines and hoists.—
Richard Grant,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Mar. 2025
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Beyond its botanical marvels, the olive tree of Vouves, which is also older than the Parthenon, is a cultural symbol woven into the tapestry of Greek heritage.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Depending on the intensity, duration and sequence of those vibrations, sensations such as being tapped, stroked or squeezed can be simulated.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
23 Dec. 2024
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The pair offers something that manages to be both playful and introspective at the same time, a delicate balance of two sensations so commonplace with Christmastime.—
Stephanie Kaloi and James Mercadante,
EW.com,
21 Dec. 2024
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“Phenomena.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/phenomena. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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