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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.
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Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microcosmos
Noun
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Their stories represented a microcosm of the Miami experience.—
David Ovalle,
NPR,
20 Apr. 2026
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That situation was a microcosm of the team’s struggles right now.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.—
Bernard Avishai,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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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
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With more computing power than previously available to other cosmic simulations, COLIBRE developed a synthetic universe that closely resembles observations the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been making of the early cosmos.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
19 Apr. 2026
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Choosing the right stocks can be challenging due to the vast universe of equities available.—
TipRanks.com Staff,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Hungry black holes are the hidden architects of the cosmos.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
16 Apr. 2026
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Instead, Kahan occupies a funny spot in the pop-music cosmos—music for people who own too much performance fleece to embrace the bombast of Taylor Swift but aren’t quite feral enough for the cacophony of Geese.—
Amanda Petrusich,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Financial experts say even if the ceasefire holds and the Strait of Hormuz is reopened, the lingering effects of its closure will be felt in the economic sphere for months to come.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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As Holocaust memory is increasingly contested in the public sphere and the trauma of the Holocaust is joined by other tragedies for the Jews, Rosensaft’s vision has grown uncertain.—
Stewart Ain,
Sun Sentinel,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Microcosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microcosmos. Accessed 21 Apr. 2026.
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