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cosmos

[koz-mohs, -muhs] / ˈkɒz moʊs, -məs /


NOUN
ordered system
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The pattern and timing of that light allow scientists to estimate the direction the neutrino came from — helping them trace its origins in the cosmos.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

These carry information about violent, high-energy processes in the cosmos.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Its unfurling will reveal an image of the cosmos overlain with blooming flowers and splintered prisms emanating rainbows.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Stranger Beauty” seems less a light in the cosmos than a model for padding out the page count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

This is the primal zero, the birthplace of the universe: the big bang, a furious explosion that created the cosmos.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

In many ways, the physics of these budding cosmoses are like the baby universes Hawking and Guth hatch inside black holes.

From Time Magazine Archive

You evidently fancy that cosmoses are born to all the faculty they shall ever have, like ducks: no such thing.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James




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