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Definition
something that exists or happened — especially something of special interest — sometimes someone or something that is extraordinary
- Accidents are unreliable phenomena.3.5 — Part 3 Chapter 5 (44% in)
- Ellsworth Toohey was a phenomenon much too extreme to fit behind the front page of the Banner.2.9 — Part 2 Chapter 9 (78% in)
- He had to fight phenomena such as: "Listen, Palmer, Lansing's talking about somebody named Roark, how're you going to vote, do the big boys approve of him or not?"2.10 — Part 2 Chapter 10 (42% in)
- In "One Small Voice," subtitled "I Swim with the Current," Ellsworth Toohey wrote: # "We have hesitated for a long time to acknowledge the powerful phenomenon known as Modern Architecture.3.6 — Part 3 Chapter 6 (73% in)
There are no more uses of "phenomenon" in The Fountainhead.
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