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  • noun nonstandard Plural form of phenomenon.

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  • At daytime, the ionization caused by the sun completely drowns out the effect that HAARP can create, and even at night it is so faint that only special sensitive cameras at the installation has captured them. so? and what would you call the phenomenons that haarp can cause in universal terminology? if this principle is right, then you can't call a hamburger a hamburger. unless you eat in hamburg, germany.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • At daytime, the ionization caused by the sun completely drowns out the effect that HAARP can create, and even at night it is so faint that only special sensitive cameras at the installation has captured them. so? and what would you call the phenomenons that haarp can cause in universal terminology? if this principle is right, then you can't call a hamburger a hamburger. unless you eat in hamburg, germany.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • All the internet 'phenomenons' tend to spring up due to this reason.

    Cats Can Has Grammar - Anil Dash 2007

  • There was a general development in the cities, and that is why we did not have those terrible phenomenons, meaning the shantytowns.

    Fidel Castro's 8 Aug News Conference 1994

  • But I remember it as being the harbinger of the "phenomenons" of that fin-de-siecle era of moviemaking, not to mention groundbreaking in its use of CG to compose shots heretofore either impossible or beyond budget by craft.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • But I remember it as being the harbinger of the "phenomenons" of that fin-de-siecle era of moviemaking, not to mention groundbreaking in its use of CG to compose shots heretofore either impossible or beyond budget by craft.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • I can understand covering some pop culture "phenomenons" repeatedly -- but this shouldn't be one of them.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • But I remember it as being the harbinger of the "phenomenons" of that fin-de-siecle era of moviemaking, not to mention groundbreaking in its use of CG to compose shots heretofore either impossible or beyond budget by craft.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • But over the last several decades, thanks to boy bands and pop "phenomenons" like Britney Spears, young people playing music are considered either a novelty or manufactured a la the Archies.

    Metro Times 2009

  • But over the last several decades, thanks to boy bands and pop "phenomenons" like Britney Spears, young people playing music are considered either a novelty or manufactured a la the Archies.

    Metro Times 2009

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