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 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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In January, OpenAI was reported to be asking third-party contractors, via training data firm Handshake AI, to upload samples of real work products from previous jobs—actual PowerPoints, spreadsheets, and the like—with instructions to scrub confidential material before submission.

— Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2026
Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann, who admitted to killing eight women between 1993 and 2010, pleaded guilty earlier this month after his defense failed to overcome groundbreaking DNA evidence collected from rootless hair samples.

— Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 21 Apr. 2026