milieu
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In a milieu where every fold and crease, every millimeter of negative draft or change of curvature, adds cost, the S5 saves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
“It seems like they haven’t really given credit to women in an independent milieu who have organized a lot of female-only shows for years,” Brownstein told the Dallas Observer in 1998.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
She used her opportunity to create a warts-and-all portrait of her over-educated and downwardly mobile milieu.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
“If he’d been born in the U.S. he’d be the CEO of a company or some wunderkind. It’s sort of unfortunate he was born in the milieu that he was. He’d be successful anywhere.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Tchaikovsky wasn’t the first heavyweight Russian composer who wrote in the mainstream international idiom, the same milieu as Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi or Brahms.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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It speaks to how isolating online social milieus can be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
Schumer, 74, and Jeffries, 55, hail from different Brooklyn milieus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
But most television shows offer the conceit of characters inhabiting their own milieus.
From Salon ● Feb. 11, 2022
These sprawling novels of galactic milieus, giant orbitals and even larger A.I. ships and their various machinations offer one of the most compelling and sustained visions of a far-flung future.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2021
Oppenheimer recognized that their social milieus were fated to remain distinct.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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This background appears to contrast with Mr. Taylor’s own cultural interests, as laid out in many books, which can be roughly summarized as the English novel and its social milieux since 1945.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Forests, for example, release a complex chemical milieux into the air.
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2024
These scientific milieux shaped their inquiries and practices, and enabled them to contest and advance knowledge.
From Nature ● Sep. 16, 2019
The lifetimes of Merchant and Ivory spanned generations in which the cultural landscape changed slowly but radically; they both came from milieux in which being openly gay wasn’t common or acceptable.
From The New Yorker ● May 19, 2017
Wonderful must it clearly have been still to fed amid laxities and vaguenesses such a difference of milieux and, as they used to say, of atmospheres.
From A Small Boy and Others by Henry James
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