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usage Phenomena has been in occasional use as a singular for more than 400 years and its plural phenomenas for more than 350. Our evidence shows that it is primarily a speech form used by poets, critics, and professors, among others, but one that sometimes turns up in edited prose <the Borgia were, in modern terms, a media phenomena— Economist>. It is etymologically no more irregular than stamina, agenda, and candelabra, but it has nowhere near the frequency of use that they have, and while they are standard, phenomena is still rather borderline
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PHENOMENA
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fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
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XENHOBIA
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1: the act or practice of steering; broadly : direction
2[from its originally being located near the rudder] : a section of inferior accommodations in a passenger ship for passengers paying the lowest fares |
STEERAGE
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: the act or process of globalizing : the state of being globalized; especially : the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets
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GLOBALIZATION
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1 : to represent by or as if by a picture <a mural depicting a famous battle>
2 : describe 1 |
DEPICTING
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