How to Use phenomena in a Sentence

phenomena

noun
  • But more work needs to be done to link the two phenomena.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Way up in the atmosphere above a wildfire, phenomena can grow all the more bizarre.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But what if the arrow of time looked at phenomena where entropy changes are small?
    Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • These same phenomena are a big part of the Tesla stock story.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Colfer, who had recently wrapped Glee’s phenomena of a second season, was at the right place at the right time for SNL to think of him for the cameo.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • First among them is the expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and phenomena in the atmosphere and space.
    Lori Garver, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 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
  • They were beloved among the public who believed in such phenomena.
    Susan Dunne, courant.com, 2 June 2021
  • 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
  • Minecraft, the building and creation game based on blocks, is one of the biggest gaming phenomena of the early 21st century.
    Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • The report was spurred in part by the public release of three Navy videos showing the flight of unidentified aerial phenomena.
    Brett Forrest, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • 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
  • There's a lot of symmetry between the moon and Earth, most commonly seen in a phenomena known as tidal locking.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Between a once-in-a-lifetime comet and the epic meeting of Jupiter and Saturn for the great conjunction, 2020 was a big year for celestial phenomena.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Between a once-in-a-lifetime comet and the epic meeting of Jupiter and Saturn for the great conjunction, 2020 was a big year for celestial phenomena.
    Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • In the face of a rapidly changing world, the preservation of objects, organisms and phenomena takes on a new urgence.
    Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
  • This work may shed light on curious cultural phenomena, like how people value their experience seeing the Mona Lisa after waiting for hours in crowds at the Louvre.
    Piotr Winkielman, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2025
  • For many years, Americans have sought answers to various unnatural phenomena in the last century.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Mar. 2025

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