microcosmic
Example Sentences
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Millet’s definition of the end of the world is expansive: Sometimes, the world is microcosmic and social.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
"Alcarràs" presents a microcosmic look at a family, a farm, and a community by allowing viewers to eavesdrop on their lives.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2022
That first half-hour of testimony was sort of a microcosmic recapitulation of Palin’s 2008 debut on the national stage.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2022
And, contrasting with this macrocosmic scale, there is the microcosmic: the stripped-down vulnerability of individual drawings, which are often not much larger than the faces that lean in to absorb them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022
“Despite my curiosity, I decided that my ignorance was less important than the existence of this microcosmic ecosystem in a veritable desert.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
