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Recent Examples of microcosmosAnother number down the list would have drawn knowing nods within the microcosmos of horse racing intellectuals: The cost of breeding a mare with Scat Daddy, the blossoming sire merely 11 years old, had sprouted from $35,000 to $100,000.—Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, 5 May 2018
In that way, his simple warmup is a microcosm of a larger idea.
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Rustin Dodd,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
Adrian Molina’s departure as director—originally set to break barriers as Pixar’s first Latino and LGBTQ+ solo director—frames the film’s production as a microcosm of representation struggles in Hollywood, despite his ongoing credit[1].
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
For me, to have this opportunity as two women is really thrilling professionally, personally, especially in the macrocosm of theater.
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Dave Quinn,
People.com,
22 Nov. 2024
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.
Vera, the buzzy, brilliant and preternaturally observant ten-year-old central to Gary Shteyngart’s sardonic and profoundly relevant new novel, brings a fresh, necessary perspective to our evolving dystopian universe.
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Jane Ciabattari
July 8,
Literary Hub,
8 July 2025
In the past, the reality series brought together the most iconic and beloved single stars from across the Netflix universe for another chance at finding love.
The wounds of Christ are not a scam, in Leonard’s cosmos, but everything else is up for grabs.
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Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
30 June 2025
The cosmic microwave background — the leftover light from when the universe was only 380,000 years old — soaks the entire cosmos, filling every cubic centimeter.
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