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something that exists or happened — especially something of special interest — sometimes someone or something that is extraordinary
- This "achievement gap" is a phenomenon that has been observed over and over again, and it typically provokes one of two responses.Chapter 9 (30% in)
phenomenon = something that exists and is of special interest
- It wasn't until the mid-1980s, in fact, that a Canadian psychologist named Roger Barnsley first drew attention to the phenomenon of relative age.Chapter 1 (34% in)
- Even more social phenomena can be linked to relative age.Chapter 1 (76% in)
- The sociologist Robert Merton famously called this phenomenon the "Matthew Effect" after the New Testament verse in the Gospel of Matthew: "For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance."Chapter 1 (79% in)
phenomenon = something that exists and is of special interest
phenomena = interesting observable things
phenomenon = something that exists and is of special interest
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