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phenomenon
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Cutting for Stone
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- La belle indifférence was what Charcot called this phenomenon.†
Part 1phenomenon = something that exists or happened -- often of special interest
- It had taken Matron her first year in Addis to understand that this was how stress, anxiety, marital strife, and depression were expressed in Ethiopia—somatization was what Ghosh said the experts called this phenomenon.†
Part 2
- She remembered a phenomenon she'd experienced for years when she was about to fall asleep: a sense that someone was calling her name.†
Part 2
- We would have further "explored the phenomenon," as Ghosh put it, but he had to return to the hospital.†
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- Strange phenomenon.†
Part 3
- At first he credits the paregoric for the curious phenomenon, but it continues after the paregoric is long gone: like a cinema projectionist he watches his life play out on the screen of the blank ceiling, or sometimes in the light playing on his window.†
Part 4
Definitions:
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(phenomenon) something that exists or happened -- especially something of special interest -- sometimes someone or something that is extraordinary"Phenomenons" and "phenomena" are both appropriate plural forms of this noun. "Phenomena" is generally used in scientific or philosophical contexts.
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) In philosophy, a phenomenon is something as known through the senses. It is contrasted with a noumenon.