Hard as they are to imagine, quantum effects lie at the root of the most familiar phenomena.

Caeled knew the sky well; this was not a familiar phenomenon.

At other times it involves them in working with familiar phenomena.

I am a bit out of tune even on baseball cards, a familiar phenomenon to any 20th-century mother.

Indeed, blocking artifacts are probably a familiar phenomenon to almost everyone who has watched digital video.

It is a familiar phenomenon that the collective should take refuge in the alibi of history.

New York opera is experiencing a familiar urban phenomenon: a disappearing middle class.

Theory is usually created by analogy between unexplained and familiar phenomena.

Sadly, trafficking in women is also a familiar and frequent phenomenon.