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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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Seeing how different countries approach sports is a microcosm of how some of those countries operate.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
18 Feb. 2025
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Even that Tim Horton’s is a beautiful place in its own right, the combination of NHL kitsch and traditional Iranian tea paraphernalia offering a delightful microcosm of the film’s twilight zone liminality.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Microcosm also meets macrocosm in Nohemí Pérez’s drawings: five monumental works that show forests on fire in the Catatumbo region of Columbia, which Pérez calls home.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
28 Nov. 2024
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The social slippage that has led the world to become a macrocosm of the Swap Shop — so many of us free-diving for usable ephemera, pooling our limited resources with one another — is not something to celebrate.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
3 May 2022
Noun
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Hints that Captain America will lead a new super-team and face off against threats from parallel universes at the end of Brave New World harbinger a new MCU where X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and a handful of the Avengers all live and fight in the same universe.—
Eliana Dockterman,
TIME,
14 Feb. 2025
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By using telescopes to peer into the distant universe and study the phenomena observed there, astronomers can essentially see back in time.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
13 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Our solar system, once thought to be the blueprint for all planetary systems, now stands as just one of countless possibilities—a unique configuration in a cosmos teeming with variety.—
Dakotah Tyler,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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The name reflects the lunar rover's mission and practical value in aiding the Chinese people to uncover the mysteries of the moon, which is in line with China's yearning to explore the vast cosmos, develop the space industry and build itself into a space power, CMSA said in a statement.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
14 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Europe faces two great crises — in the economic and security spheres — that are, ultimately, two sides of the same coin.—
Courtenay Brown,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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Maintaining focus on these problems in the public policy sphere is challenging given the significant time since the last event in 1994 that produced significant damage in a California urban center.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Microcosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microcosmos. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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