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microcosm

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


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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

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

That some wounds are yet to heal isn’t surprising for the author of The Microcosm.

From The Guardian • Jul. 23, 2017

"Threadbare: Clothes, Sex and Trafficking," released this month by Microcosm Publishing, gathers a collection of monthly reports that were originally featured on the news site Truthout.org as part of Moore's comics journalism series "Ladydrawers."

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2016

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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