microcosm

If you can create this utopian microcosm that gives people the ability to have some semblance of a transcendent emotional experience, at the very least, all I can do is try to facilitate that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

"That's the sort of microcosm of what I see in America at its best moments."

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

In reality, he was an enterprising newspaperman whose passion for Hong Kong is a microcosm of his love for America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Night Nurse” is more about the microcosm of this sleepy retirement community — where money and power still have influence, despite their stasis — than it is the outcome of Eleni and Douglas’ affair.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

I hope my experience will be a microcosm for readers, who will also appreciate art in direct proportion to the amount of knowledge they bring to it.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

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

The second is that issues like trans health care, which is focused on a small and vulnerable community, can be microcosms of much bigger problems, and should be situated in context.

From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2025

“So why would we not shine a spotlight on sports that are microcosms of the real world? What I love about ultimate is that mixed isn’t combining two things. Ultimate is mixed, at its core.”

From BBC ● May 6, 2024

Beautifully illustrated by her brother, Billy Renkl, “The Comfort of Crows” may help readers see their own microcosms in a different light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

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