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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Noun

In 2017, detectives used DNA samples preserved from Walls' body and the area in which she was found to create an image of a person of interest, according to The Virginian-Pilot.

— Ingrid Vasquez, PEOPLE, 20 May 2026
By working from the deepest, oldest parts of the core samples to the ground surface, the geomorphologists could reconstruct a sequence of flooding and sediment deposition over thousands of years.

— Geoff Emberling, The Conversation, 19 May 2026