Vocabulary
Phenomenon
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
a fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen, especially one whose cause or explanation is in question.
Urdu meaning
مظاہر قدرت، عجوبہ،کرشمہ، ظہور
Example sentences (from Dawn)
Sentences are selected from stored editorial text where your search word appears. If none appear yet, run the admin sentence generator for fuller coverage.
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However, we face a unique and alarming phenomenon: large numbers of young children are becoming infected.
Dawn Editorials —
Cure or curse?
— 2026-05-01
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Meaning emerges not from isolated lines but from relationships across passages.Modern literary scholarship describes a similar phenomenon as `ring composition` a concentric structure common in ancient Semitic texts.
Dawn Editorials —
A divine design
— 2026-04-10
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Fuel prices are never an isolated economic phenomenon.
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Soaring costs
— 2026-03-13
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This phenomenon may be exemplified by the PPP`s continued electoral dominance in Sindh, even as it has failed to muster support outside its traditional constituencies in Karachi.
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Karachi`s quagmire
— 2026-01-31
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HEART transplants are a recent phenomenon.
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Head transplants
— 2026-01-22
Synonyms
occurrence, event, happening, fact, situation, circumstance, experience, case,
Antonyms
usualness, normality, regularity
Curator example
“glaciers are interesting natural phenomena”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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