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milieu

[mil-yoo, meel-, mee-lyœ] / mɪlˈyʊ, mil-, miˈlyœ /


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Like the milieu in which they’re set, prison movies can be terribly constricting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

The portraits play off the novel’s milieu: a series of churches, as well as the medieval French castle that is home to an eccentric and mostly absent prince.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 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

Coming of age in this seamy milieu has given him a cynical worldview and a preternatural calm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Another thing that awed me was their almost total lack of information outside their milieu.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane




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