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“Delaware is a microcosm of the country as a whole,” Russ says.

You could argue that its evolution is a microcosm of what’s happening in West Virginia at large.

In Brazil, there was a microcosmic slice of the kind of public role he is attempting to carve.

Literature is essentially a niche interest, and, as such, is subject to its own microcosmic fads.

The oxide of niobium dissolved in a bead of microcosmic salt gives a bluish colour in the reducing flame.

Heat the substance with a bead of microcosmic salt or borax on a platinum wire in the oxidizing flame.

He is determined to tell the truth of our microcosmic baseness.

Many of the silicates give with borax a clear bead, while they form with microcosmic salt an opalescent one.

Fused with borax, soda, or microcosmic salt, they give a clear bead.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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