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Recent Examples of macrocosm
Carol’s book signing before the world-altering event is really a microcosm of what would soon become the macrocosm.
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Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 Nov. 2025
Microcosm also meets macrocosm in Nohemí Pérez’s drawings: five monumental works that show forests on fire in the Catatumbo region of Columbia, which Pérez calls home.
—Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 28 Nov. 2024
For me, to have this opportunity as two women is really thrilling professionally, personally, especially in the macrocosm of theater.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 22 Nov. 2024
The social slippage that has led the world to become a macrocosm of the Swap Shop — so many of us free-diving for usable ephemera, pooling our limited resources with one another — is not something to celebrate.
—New York Times, 3 May 2022
But the flower choker holds a unique place in the macrocosm of the early aughts revival.
—Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 28 Feb. 2022
But a broken nation is not a macrocosm of a broken family.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
In other words, the macrocosm of the cosmos is reflected in the microcosm of individual experience.
—Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 6 Jan. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for macrocosm
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Bowie set his sights on the ends of the observable universe, and on places even darker.—
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Additionally, the film will finally unite the Avengers with several actors from Fox's X-Men films, which took place in a separate universe that will presumably crash into Disney's MCU.—
Noun
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At the beginning of the Iron Age, Phoenicians set out westwards, searching for valuable natural resources to be brought back and traded in the urbanized world of the eastern Mediterranean.—
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The Los Angeles theater world underwent a historic leadership shift in 2023 when two artistic directors of color were placed at the helm of the city’s most prestigious nonprofit companies.—
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Plenty of us leave winter watering to nature and, in areas with adequate snow or rainfall, supplemental irrigation may not be needed.—
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Not infrequently, the questions of the past that is never lost and is irreplaceable in western art arise like a fascism, or a subordination to what remains of its dialectic nature, that relies on myth to legitimate fascism’s inseparable relation to beauty.—
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“Macrocosm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/macrocosm. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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