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microcosm

[mahy-kruh-koz-uhm] / ˈmaɪ krəˌkɒz əm /


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It was through Microcosm that Shotwell first met Musk.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

After a decade there, Shotwell took a role at another space company, called Microcosm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

Musk deserves credit for hiring Shotwell away from Microcosm, an El Segundo rocket company, and staying out of her way while taking credit for the company’s achievements as a government contractor.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2022

Some of these women’s projects look like dead-end paths in retrospect; Hall’s hypermedia system Microcosm, for instance, was steamrolled by the web.

From The Verge • Mar. 5, 2018

XI and XII of The Microcosm is from the "Second" octavo collected edition, Windsor, 1788.

From Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning by Wagstaffe, William




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