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cosmos

[koz-mohs, -muhs] / ˈkɒz moʊs, -məs /


NOUN
ordered system
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An insatiable curiosity about the world and the principles by which it operates, a hunger to know the mysteries of nature and grasp the secrets of the cosmos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The chemistry prize follows the physics prize, which on Tuesday honoured Belgian physicist Francis Halzen for groundbreaking work using Antarctic ice to capture particles originating in the distant cosmos.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

The pattern and timing of that light allow scientists to estimate the direction the neutrino came from — helping them trace its origins in the cosmos.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

By examining the chemical fingerprints inside these old stars, scientists can infer what the first stars were like and how they began enriching the cosmos with its earliest chemical elements.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The heavenly spheres are slowly spinning in their places, making a music that suffuses the cosmos.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

In many ways, the physics of these budding cosmoses are like the baby universes Hawking and Guth hatch inside black holes.

From Time Magazine Archive

You evidently fancy that cosmoses are born to all the faculty they shall ever have, like ducks: no such thing.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James




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