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microcosm

noun

Definition of microcosm

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 Experts say the island is a microcosm of how a mindset of charity and coordination can handle massive inflows of migrants – not without difficulty, but without the rupture of a sense of community and goodwill. — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026 Steinbeck creates a microcosm of American society, where disability, gender, race and class are all represented and shaped by an economic hierarchy. — Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 Scott’s visit to Pocono Raceway has been a microcosm of his daily life as a full-time driver. — Devin Jackson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2026 In that respect, the song is also a microcosm of New Ways to Lose. — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for microcosm

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Hopkinson and chief financial officer Simon Capper visited Nyon, Switzerland, on multiple occasions, while the CEO also spoke to governing-body representatives in Budapest before the Champions League final in May.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Waymo’s support team is automatically notified if the vehicle crashes, and a roadside assistance representative will come to the collision site to assess the situation in person.

— Amaia Gavica, Miami Herald, 18 July 2026

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Investigators took swabs from two soda bottles collected from Brown’s trash, and sent the samples to the UNT lab for testing, according to the affidavit.

— Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026
There’s also a laboratory bench where scientists can examine their samples immediately, instead of waiting to return to shore.

— Alex Harris July 15, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

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Those are just two examples of Russian FPV (first-person view) drones attacking civilians rather than military assets – a phenomenon that’s also playing out in the frontline cities of Kherson and Kramatorsk.

— Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Rather than discarding imperfect outputs, GIFT identifies those that are close to correct and uses them to generate new training examples.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 18 July 2026

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