the cosmos

noun

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

Examples of the cosmos in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web With a smile that can light up the cosmos, the almost 90-pound pup is a gentle soul who leans into petting and never says no to a little snack. The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2024 Extrapolating from the cosmos’s initial density variations, researchers expect the current S8 value to be 0.83. Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024 As animals of the deep ocean, they may be primed to understand the cosmos as a dark and mysterious expanse. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2024 Living in the countryside in Scotland, Diana Garland doesn’t spend much time keeping up with the stars — or, at least not the ones outside of the cosmos. Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2024 Introduction Clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies sit at the intersections of giant, crisscrossing filaments of matter that form the tapestry of the cosmos. Liz Kruesi, Quanta Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024 But neither one’s religion nor philosophy can ever fully answer the conundrum that is our existence, much less our place in the cosmos. Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024 Finding more of them will offer a new way to probe the mysteries of the cosmos. Theo Nicitopoulos, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2024 Coupling that distance with a separate measurement of how fast the supernova is moving away from Earth reveals the speed at which the cosmos was expanding when that stellar cataclysm took place. Ashley Balzer Vigil, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2024

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“The cosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20cosmos. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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