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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
No sequence served as a better microcosm of that than the several plays that might’ve cost them the game early in the fourth quarter Sunday, when both LaFleur and multiple guys on the field left plenty to be desired.
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Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
The whirlwind day was a microcosm of the 19-year-old’s bustling, prolific career.
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.
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.
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Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
Panpsychists don’t believe in anything supernatural or outside the physical universe.
This could have ramifications for a powerful method of investigating the cosmos called multimessenger astronomy, which involves studying events and objects in electromagnetic radiation along with gravitational waves or neutrinos.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
30 Oct. 2025
Get ready to dive into a cosmos of blooming microorganisms!
But by the early 19th century, some mathematicians had started exploring other kinds of geometric spaces — ones that aren’t flat but rather curved like a sphere or saddle.
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Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Nov. 2025
While reading the script, Price also came across the concept of a Dyson sphere, a structure that harnesses power from the sun.
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