microcosmos

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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. Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microcosmos
Noun
  • Thought the game was a microcosm of that.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The delta is a microcosm of humanity’s problems, with its rising population, increasing agriculture, environmental degradation, and climate change.
    Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Vexingly, the war with Iran is reproducing in macrocosm what those wars taught in microcosm.
    Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • From the restaurant servers to the concierges, everyone had a distinctive wardrobe that denoted their role in the Waldorf universe.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The sequel incorporates sci-fi elements, as Tree finds herself in a parallel universe as a result of her friend’s time-travel experiments.
    Arushi Jacob, Variety, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • When these rapidly spinning neutron stars blast out radiation from their poles, that radiation sweeps across the cosmos like beams of light from a cosmic lighthouse.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • These are the weirdest chunks of matter in the cosmos—a teaspoon of their material weighs as much as Mount Everest—making neutron stars the sites of some of the most extreme physics out there.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • There are shooting options connected with Universal’s app, where selections include firing off steel spheres, fireballs and, as minions would have it, bananas.
    Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Moving between these spheres is a privilege and keeps me committed to nonspecialized audiences and to the ongoing effort to broaden access to the visual arts.
    Raphael Fonseca, Artforum, 2 Apr. 2026

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“Microcosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microcosmos. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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