microcosm

Example Sentences

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"He has broken quite a lot of glass, and these things have repercussions in our microcosm," Mercedes team principal Wolff told the Press Association.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

His corner, in the 52nd minute, was a microcosm of the day.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Tuliaupupu’s near-decade playing college sports is a microcosm of a growing trend in the amateur ranks, where athletes are staying in school longer to keep playing and competing as students.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

It is a microcosm of the broader trade landscape in Malaysia, an emerging economy where U.S. exports have to compete with locally made products and goods from elsewhere, particularly China, Malaysia’s biggest trading partner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

It might be thought that Copernicus was responsible for the destruction of the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton