microcosm

"That's the sort of microcosm of what I see in America at its best moments."

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

“What happens inside a fraternity party is really just a microcosm of what happens elsewhere on campus,” he said, insisting fraternities were “not a portal to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Ultimately, it’s a microcosm of a larger battle playing out across Southern California as cities ask existential questions in an effort to solve the housing crunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

When they scored, it was a microcosm of their class, a lethal moment of accuracy and brilliance.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

The physics that works for falling bodies and pirouetting ice skaters down here in the microcosm of the Earth makes galaxies up there in the macrocosm of the universe.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Her approach consists of combining aerosol and seawater samples with sediment records, satellite data and lab microcosms to pin down cause and effect.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025

“So why would we not shine a spotlight on sports that are microcosms of the real world? What I love about ultimate is that mixed isn’t combining two things. Ultimate is mixed, at its core.”

From BBC ● May 6, 2024

Since Marcel lives in the human world, Slate said that one of the major joys of creating his microcosms lies in repurposing household items from their intended use for his everyday activities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2022

But the historian Qin Shao has argued that early teahouses still had subversive power as microcosms of both city and country.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021

One need not go to the antipodes to find the nerves and the tissues, the flesh and the blood, of these planetary evocations, of these microcosms of the universe.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys