the cosmos

noun

: the universe especially when it is understood as an ordered system
the origins of the cosmos

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Alice, too, would come to embrace the cosmos, though her navigation involved a rather different set of coordinates. Ian Penman, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026 There isn’t anything passive or subtle when the lovers of the cosmos — Mars and Venus — square off with each other. Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026 One of Roman's instruments called a coronagraph is expected to revolutionize exoplanet research while WFI scans the cosmos to image around 2 billion galaxies during the telescope's main survey. Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 29 July 2026 How these extreme objects formed in the earliest years of the universe—when the cosmos was less than a billion years old—has long been something of a mystery. Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for the cosmos

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“The cosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20cosmos. Accessed 10 Aug. 2026.

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