microcosm
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The play, which takes place in the period predating smartphones, offers a microcosm of American life, not unlike the Grover’s Corners of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” before our brains were all rewired.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Hassabis’s life is a microcosm of the AI industry’s broader evolution.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
It is a microcosm of the world’s society, with one important exception: Nearly everyone attending the festival is well educated.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
Our critic called the show “an ingenious microcosm, focused on the ‘candlelight’ nocturnes of 1765 to 1773, when Wright was present at the creation of our age of science and spectacle.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
The physics that works for falling bodies and pirouetting ice skaters down here in the microcosm of the Earth makes galaxies up there in the macrocosm of the universe.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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