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Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning; A remarkable development.

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Usage examples (39)
  • No, this trick won't work. . . . How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
  • Even the term phenomenon comes way to short of defining who and what this genius of song, dance, emotion, and love really was.
  • This phenomenon is as remarkable as it is important.
  • In this respect the phenomenon is all the more puzzling.
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