milieu
Example Sentences
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When she didn't go through Nashville and its country-music milieu, "it sort of threw people for a loop", he told the BBC.
From BBC
This time, he tantalizes us with the milieu of nightclub self-expression and a group of regular amateurs Alex gets comfortable hanging with.
From Los Angeles Times
Using cryo-EM, researchers from the Laboratory of Molecular Electron Microscopy studied the receptor in a biochemical setting designed to closely resemble its native milieu.
From Science Daily
The book—a masterpiece of the genre—chronicles the circuitous path he took from Brownsville, then a scrappy Jewish neighborhood, to the tony milieu of New York’s literati.
The book, however, offers readers a detailed treatment of the bloody Gold Rush California milieu in which Murrieta moved.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
