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Recent Examples of microcosmosAnother number down the list would have drawn knowing nods within the microcosmos of horse racing intellectuals: The cost of breeding a mare with Scat Daddy, the blossoming sire merely 11 years old, had sprouted from $35,000 to $100,000.—Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
His work in Marseille, a city that's a microcosm of many of the world's challenges, including migration, climate change, income inequality and interfaith clashes, may help bolster his chances of leading the church through a host of secular problems.
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Jorge L. Ortiz,
USA Today,
6 May 2025
The five-acre parcel is a sort of microcosm of the area, which sits in the foothills of the Blue Ridge and Southwest Mountains and is considered the Piedmont region.
For me, to have this opportunity as two women is really thrilling professionally, personally, especially in the macrocosm of theater.
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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.
As Penrose knew, nothing stands still in our cosmos, not even black holes.
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Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
12 May 2025
The resulting Hubble Deep Field image revealed about 3,000 distant galaxies, offering humanity's first profound look into the universe's true immensity and revealing a cosmos teeming with galaxies, even at extreme distances.
Encouraging infrastructure growth is a delicate and complicated process, requiring buy-in and cooperation from many actors in both the private and public spheres.
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Gordon Bitko,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
The Fondazione Prada, which has its headquarters in a Milan arts center that has a bar designed by Wes Anderson, has long been active in the film sphere.
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