Thesaurus results for MICROCOSMS

microcosms

noun

plural of microcosm

as in samples

something (such as a place or an event) that is seen as a small version of something much larger The village is a microcosm of the whole country. The game was a microcosm of the entire season.

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Recent Examples of microcosms In my writing, these spaces tend to act as microcosms for the bigger socio-political stage. — Literary Hub, 30 July 2026 Jacksonville is a huge place with a lot of different microcosms. — Becky Wern, Florida Times-Union, 7 Mar. 2026 Two totally different microcosms. — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 29 Jan. 2026 The results don’t feel like beats from a trashy TV show but instead like microcosms of the culture wars, raising uncomfortable questions about what the unscripted space is willing to normalize and gamify in 2026. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2026

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Noun

The French Blood Establishment ultimately managed to detect the suspicious activity in time to rescue blood samples.

— Jenna McLaughlin, NPR, 6 Nov. 2026
The original ballad samples a Lil Wayne interview from 2009 in a way that is both disjointed and completely enchanting.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026

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The session in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, brought the first direct discussions between Ukrainian and Russian representatives in nine months as the push for a settlement stalled.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Nov. 2026
The discussions followed two days of negotiations involving Russian, Ukrainian and American representatives in Abu Dhabi.

— Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Nov. 2026