microcosm
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"He has broken quite a lot of glass, and these things have repercussions in our microcosm," Mercedes team principal Wolff told the Press Association.
From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026
This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
Instead, “From the Shadows” is an ingenious microcosm, focused on the “candlelight” nocturnes of 1765 to 1773, when Wright was present at the creation of our age of science and spectacle.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026
Tuliaupupu’s near-decade playing college sports is a microcosm of a growing trend in the amateur ranks, where athletes are staying in school longer to keep playing and competing as students.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
It might be thought that Copernicus was responsible for the destruction of the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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