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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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Was this Otto Lopez play a microcosm of the Marlins’ season?
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Saturday's loss to the New York Liberty was a microcosm of Clark's play thus far.
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The same problem exists in macrocosm at the school-district level.
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Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.
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Satellite, rocket and robotics startups are in testing Outside of the trillion-dollar-plus tech stock universe, several startups are also eyeing the skies.
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This analysis used the US stock market as defined by the CRSP/Compustat universe, but excluded microcaps, very small companies.
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Astronomers could now search the cosmos for such events, the discovery of which would help verify Fuller's model.
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Another survey will prompt the telescope to observe one specific region every five days over the course of two years to learn more about objects within the cosmos that change over time, such as exploding stars.
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His goal, ultimately, is to bring together disparate groups of people from different spheres in a space everyone will feel comfortable in.
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According to his Instagram, the younger Zayas also works in the creative sphere as a theatre director.
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“Microcosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microcosmos. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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