Thesaurus results for MICROCOSM

microcosm

noun

as in representative

something (such as a place or an event) that is seen as a small version of something much larger The village is a microcosm of the whole country. The game was a microcosm of the entire season.

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Recent Examples of microcosm The month of February is a microcosm of the company's strategy these days — and a notable turn for the media company in recent years. —

Alex Sherman, CNBC, 15 Jan. 2026 The results don’t feel like beats from a trashy TV show but instead like microcosms of the culture wars, raising uncomfortable questions about what the unscripted space is willing to normalize and gamify in 2026. —

Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2026 Vedic astrology, too, attributes personalities to planets and speaks of the connection between the macrocosm and the microcosm. —

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Time, 10 Jan. 2026 The last two games are a microcosm of the Heat’s season so far, taking care of business against the inferior team but struggling to keep up with one of the NBA’s most talented teams. —

Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for microcosm

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Noun

The first team meeting included greetings by several athletic department representatives, from the administration and academics to the equipment and training rooms to strength and conditioning.

— Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
Conservative bloggers, talk-radio hosts, and cable networks invited a small and vocal contingent of white South Africans—sometimes people associated with Orania, sometimes representatives of lobby groups for Afrikaner interests—to bear witness to a specific version of this transition.

— Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026