microcosmos

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Recent Examples of microcosmos Another 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microcosmos
Noun
  • Thought the game was a microcosm of that.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The delta is a microcosm of humanity’s problems, with its rising population, increasing agriculture, environmental degradation, and climate change.
    Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.
    Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 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
Noun
  • From the restaurant servers to the concierges, everyone had a distinctive wardrobe that denoted their role in the Waldorf universe.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The sequel incorporates sci-fi elements, as Tree finds herself in a parallel universe as a result of her friend’s time-travel experiments.
    Arushi Jacob, Variety, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • These are the weirdest chunks of matter in the cosmos—a teaspoon of their material weighs as much as Mount Everest—making neutron stars the sites of some of the most extreme physics out there.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But what was truly stunning was that these ejections emitted gamma rays which were detected by NASA’s Fermi, showing that the blasts are capable of producing some of the most energetic emissions in the cosmos that are typically associated with black hole-forming supernovas.
    Frank Landymore, Futurism, 21 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The cosmos has three possible geometries—positively curved like a sphere, flat like an infinite plane or negatively curved like a saddle—but geometry alone doesn’t determine shape.
    Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The Echo Spot shaves it down even further to a half-sphere and adds a handy little touch screen for visual information.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026

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“Microcosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microcosmos. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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