In a sentence
Six example sentences with phenomenon, each labelled with its topic.
Sailors described the green flash for centuries before anyone filmed the phenomenon and explained it through simple atmospheric bending.
Science
Crowds in an emergency often wait for someone else to move first, a phenomenon researchers have staged in hundreds of lobbies.
Psychology
Two students in a dorm turning a class project into a global product is a phenomenon investors keep trying to reproduce.
Startups
The bioluminescent tide is a phenomenon that draws crowds to the bay on moonless nights each summer.
Environment
Prices rising even as demand falls is a phenomenon that troubled economists throughout the 1970s.
Economics
A single song spreading from a dance video to every radio station in a month is a phenomenon labels cannot plan.
Music
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Found in these word lists
Found in 8 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)Authoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Medical Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- MajorTests SAT 1000Recognized
Each source is a published word list that contains phenomenon. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.