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Recent Examples of macrocosm
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.
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Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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
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
But a broken nation is not a macrocosm of a broken family.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
In other words, the macrocosm of the cosmos is reflected in the microcosm of individual experience.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 6 Jan. 2020
Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024
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
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
But a broken nation is not a macrocosm of a broken family.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
In other words, the macrocosm of the cosmos is reflected in the microcosm of individual experience.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 6 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for macrocosm
Noun
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Always Greener, which scored 15 nominations on the annual Brit List, is a high concept script that follows a struggling artist, haunted by past failure, who is given a one-in-a-million chance to become his rich and successful doppelganger from a parallel universe.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Panpsychists don’t believe in anything supernatural or outside the physical universe.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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But just as his career was taking flight, his personal world fell apart.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
9 Nov. 2025
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Carrie, meanwhile, is villainized for her admittedly deluded quest to reunite with her biological son in a world that has dismissed them.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Crown and dignity Catalina Ruiz Navarro, a Colombian feminist activist and journalist based in Mexico City, argued that the nature of beauty pageants like Miss Universe places women in a patriarchal position.—
Anabella González,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
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Plus, the very nature of recording your live stream of thoughts means a lot of editing later down the line.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Macrocosm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macrocosm. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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