milieu
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A biography with the history dialed down concentrates on Jefferson’s thoughts, personality, relationships and milieu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
When they escape from their captor, Jack is overwhelmed by the vastness and unfamiliarity of the milieu surrounding him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
Like the milieu in which they’re set, prison movies can be terribly constricting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
"By asking why LNPs perform so differently in the physiological milieu of the body, we found a surprisingly simple answer that could make a wide range of mRNA and gene editing therapies substantially more effective."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 20, 2026
The project returned him to the milieu of small science he had left behind after his first few handmade cyclotrons.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
As so often in Hitchcock’s work, the choice of milieus determines the suspense and the moral significance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The prototypical form is the internet meme, often used in modern conspiracy milieus.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023
“I’ve met the real people that are in this book and have been in the milieus that are in this book,” he explains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
These sprawling novels of galactic milieus, giant orbitals and even larger A.I. ships and their various machinations offer one of the most compelling and sustained visions of a far-flung future.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
Oppenheimer recognized that their social milieus were fated to remain distinct.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Forests, for example, release a complex chemical milieux into the air.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
These scientific milieux shaped their inquiries and practices, and enabled them to contest and advance knowledge.
From Nature ● Sep. 16, 2019
The remake runs twenty minutes longer than the original—twenty minutes that detail Priest’s audacious maneuverings and their grim effects in milieux left unexplored by the earlier film.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2018
From the mucousy milieux of Alien's xenomorphs to the synthetic, sentient puddle of Terminator 2's T-1000, there was something especially slimy running straight through the 1980s.
From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 2017
Young Hitchcock had returned recently to the family lumber yards on the West Side and the family residence on Michigan Avenue, with about equal disgust, so Sommers judged, for both milieux.
From The Web of Life by Robert Herrick
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