as in universe
the whole body of things observed or assumed almost the entirety of the vast macrocosm remains beyond our reach

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Recent Examples of macrocosm For me, to have this opportunity as two women is really thrilling professionally, personally, especially in the macrocosm of theater. Dave Quinn, People.com, 22 Nov. 2024 Microcosm also meets macrocosm in Nohemí Pérez’s drawings: five monumental works that show forests on fire in the Catatumbo region of Columbia, which Pérez calls home. Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024 The social slippage that has led the world to become a macrocosm of the Swap Shop — so many of us free-diving for usable ephemera, pooling our limited resources with one another — is not something to celebrate. New York Times, 3 May 2022 But the flower choker holds a unique place in the macrocosm of the early aughts revival. Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022 In the macrocosm of white patriarchy and supremacy, Yendry understands that opposing standards hardly shields us from a world functioning from the very prejudices that impact Black and brown communities around the globe. Marjua Estevez, refinery29.com, 24 Feb. 2022 In other words, the macrocosm of the cosmos is reflected in the microcosm of individual experience. Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 6 Jan. 2020 In other words, the macrocosm of the cosmos is reflected in the microcosm of individual experience. Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 6 Jan. 2020 But a broken nation is not a macrocosm of a broken family. Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for macrocosm
Noun
  • Just for fun, The Athletic has imagined a parallel universe where that is the case.
    Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • The star of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, he will next be seen in Len Weisman’s John Wick universe movie Ballerina and is repped by CAA, Linden Entertainment and Jackoway Austen.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Huston could recognize the ways of that brood: her own renowned and eccentric family inhabited that domestic world of privilege, power, infidelity, and intrigue that became Christie’s writerly milieu.
    Erik Morse, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2025
  • In a world increasingly reliant on autonomous agents and decentralized networks, this moment underscored a powerful truth.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • States rely on, and benefit from, the expertise and bipartisan nature of the FTC to protect their consumers.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Algae fibers not only align with his brand ethos of bringing awareness to the creativity of nature, but also provide skin health benefits, and their harvesting process is low-waste and regenerative, according to a report by Smithsonian magazine.
    Cierra Black, Essence, 23 Apr. 2025

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“Macrocosm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macrocosm. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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