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cosmos

[koz-mohs, -muhs] / ˈkɒz moʊs, -məs /


NOUN
ordered system
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"Black holes are key drivers of gas flows and motion in space, transporting vast amounts of energy to different regions of the cosmos."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

“Stranger Beauty” seems less a light in the cosmos than a model for padding out the page count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

“The poet must strike a match, light up the cold cosmos, and insist on the power of imagination over the universe of death,” M writes, rejecting disillusionment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

By surveying huge areas of the sky and tracking how matter and galaxies are distributed across the cosmos, Roman could give researchers new clues about both phenomena.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century.

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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