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milieu

[mil-yoo, meel-, mil-yoo, mee-lyœ] / mɪlˈju, mil-, mɪlˈjʊ, miˈljœ /


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She used her opportunity to create a warts-and-all portrait of her over-educated and downwardly mobile milieu.

From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026

Once outside the walls of Buddyland and into the surrounding wilderness, Kelly shifts from boxy TV framing and video texture to a cinematic widescreen ratio, but the milieu still seems half-real, half-stylized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Marco Piemontese’s striking period costumes conjured the artists’ milieu, and Marcus Doshi’s lighting evoked both festivity and the tragedy of the ending.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Andrew Burstein’s “Being Thomas Jefferson” is a biography with the history dialed down, concentrating on Jefferson’s thoughts, personality, relationships and milieu.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

The project returned him to the milieu of small science he had left behind after his first few handmade cyclotrons.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

As so often in Hitchcock’s work, the choice of milieus determines the suspense and the moral significance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

The prototypical form is the internet meme, often used in modern conspiracy milieus.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023

Her writing and exploits took her through the worlds of L.A. literature, art, film and music, milieus she described indelibly and influenced deeply.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

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

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 remake runs twenty minutes longer than the original—twenty minutes that detail Priest’s audacious maneuverings and their grim effects in milieux left unexplored by the earlier film.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 15, 2018

From the mucousy milieux of Alien's xenomorphs to the synthetic, sentient puddle of Terminator 2's T-1000, there was something especially slimy running straight through the 1980s.

From The Verge ● Aug. 23, 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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