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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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That uncanny-valley microcosm of the Big Apple was valued real estate at the 2017 Nintendo Direct where the original Switch’s blockbuster launch title, Super Mario Odyssey, was revealed.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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Press releases from the attorneys general emphasize the gulch between the leaders, a microcosm of their significantly different approaches to running the agency.—
Ella Lee,
The Hill,
26 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For me, to have this opportunity as two women is really thrilling professionally, personally, especially in the macrocosm of theater.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
22 Nov. 2024
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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
Noun
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After April 15, the studio is done—officially stepping away from both this game and the Dungeons & Dragons universe altogether.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Encountering a chicken jockey during gameplay is pretty rare, but Hess was intent on filling the movie with his favorite characters from the vast Minecraft universe.—
Esther Zuckerman,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Because black holes naturally rotate, this could give a little spin to the entire cosmos, ultimately cascading down cosmic scales to tweak the twirls of individual galaxies.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
1 Apr. 2025
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This concept horrified critics like William Empson, who saw it as depicting a cosmos ruled by an irrational deity whose rage toward humanity can be placated only by his son’s torture and death.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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What to look for in a quality ice cube tray Shape Ice cube trays come in a variety of shapes, such as spheres, rectangles and half-moons.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
4 Apr. 2025
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So, recommendation systems is this attempt of trying to break into like a larger sphere of different kinds of algorithms, things related to manipulating data and things which are present everywhere in tech and in industry, not just a maybe more niche domain.—
Steven Strogatz,
Quanta Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Microcosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microcosmos. Accessed 20 Apr. 2025.
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