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Both are epiphenomena of the ongoing streaming revolution in the music business.

From Slate • Dec. 25, 2017

Where inflation is concerned, economists have routinely confused effects with causes, and epiphenomena with centrally important phenomena.

From Economist • Jul. 26, 2012

Although certain self-parodying epiphenomena of the Age of Profligacy � so long, Paris Hilton! � are about to disappear, fun will endure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the fact that evolution in the hands of a thinker like Huxley, for instance, should make consciousness and thinking apparently useless epiphenomena, in a developing world, has seemed like a most contradictory evolutionary philosophy.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various