cosmos

Example Sentences

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I’m but a speck of matter in the cosmos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Among the names read out was Prof Peter Higgs, the British theorist who, nearly half a century earlier, had predicted the existence of a particle believed to hold the cosmos together – the Higgs boson.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Despite its enormous influence, scientists still do not know what it is or exactly how it shapes the growth of the cosmos.

From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026

During an early walk-through for a few dozen invited guests, Tillmans held forth on his personal cosmos, surveying pictures from the experimental to the deeply intimate.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Zero and infinity had destroyed the Arisotelian philosophy; the void and the infinite cosmos had eliminated the nutshell universe and the idea of nature’s abhorrence of the vacuum.

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