How to Use phenomena in a Sentence

phenomena

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For some phenomena, researchers only have data and little idea of how to even come up with the relevant PDEs to model them.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Cyclones have long been one of the most difficult weather phenomena to forecast, and only a few centers around the globe focus on them.
    Meghan Herbst, Wired, 25 June 2021
  • Trips based around phenomena or once-a-year natural events aren’t going anywhere in 2025.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 Dec. 2024

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