microcosm

Ultimately, it’s a microcosm of a larger battle playing out across Southern California as cities ask existential questions in an effort to solve the housing crunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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

We regarded the struggle in prison as a microcosm of the struggle as a whole.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The undulating layers and microcosms that make up her jewelry’s signature “biomorphic” look extend into her fine art practice, as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025

Her approach consists of combining aerosol and seawater samples with sediment records, satellite data and lab microcosms to pin down cause and effect.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2025

My project Common Ground delves into how London parks serve as microcosms of infinite perspectives, a stage from which to observe the myriad of facets in urban life.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2024

“Hospitals and other health care entities are microcosms of society,” said Rumay Alexander, who teaches nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and advises the American Nurses Association.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

One need not go to the antipodes to find the nerves and the tissues, the flesh and the blood, of these planetary evocations, of these microcosms of the universe.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys