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cosmos

[koz-mohs, -muhs] / ˈkɒz moʊs, -məs /


NOUN
ordered system
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I’m but a speck of matter in the cosmos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Among the names read out was Prof Peter Higgs, the British theorist who, nearly half a century earlier, had predicted the existence of a particle believed to hold the cosmos together – the Higgs boson.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

For more than 30 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has continued to deliver discoveries that reshape our understanding of the cosmos.

From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026

The year was 2018, and Lawrence Krauss, the prominent physicist and scholar of the cosmos, was facing a Title IX investigation at Arizona State University.

From Salon • Feb. 6, 2026

So he was left to follow in the mental footsteps of the Ancients, using pure reason and imagination to try to come up with an explanation for the nature of the cosmos.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin