microcosm

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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

"The world's still full of those confused little boys creating chaos in the world in the guise of men and hopefully this is a little microcosm of that which helps us understand that," he adds.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

An unfinished light rail system mired in corruption allegations, a run-down central hospital which patients have described as "hell" and deepening inequality make it feel like a microcosm of the country.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2026

It is a microcosm of the broader trade landscape in Malaysia, an emerging economy where U.S. exports have to compete with locally made products and goods from elsewhere, particularly China, Malaysia’s biggest trading partner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

The laundry room was both one of the wars obscure crannies and a microcosm of the war itself, a sophisticated, efficient machine capable of processing eighteen thousand bundles of laundry each week.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly