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How to use the word microcosm in a Sentence?

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Inside is beautifully upholstered in primrose yellow silk, and also fitted into the interior, our particular specimen woods. It’s a real microcosm of British and world history. There’re woods from the royal residences, from explorations and from other countries and nations as well.

Sally Goodsir

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The NFL is a microcosm of society and what we’ve seen, particularly with the pandemic, is a greater willingness to utilize mental health resources.

Nyaka NiiLampti

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The way that the handover of Bagram Air Base went down appears to have been very poorly coordinated and that reality and perception is not helpful to American interests. It's almost a microcosm of what we've seen more broadly, and that is poor planning.

Bradley Bowman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are very small numbers, we're a single hospital, but we think that we may be a microcosm of what's happening across the country.

Daniel Hsia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

What happened on the 4th of August here in Lebanon is that the corruption literally exploded in our faces, it( the port) is a microcosm of the whole Lebanese system. It is based on bribery. It is based on patronage. I consider this to be a place operated by a mafia.

Riad Kobaissi

Found on CNN
2 years ago

North Carolina on Friday is a microcosm now of what is going on across the nation, i see now that no city, small or large, is exempt.

Mayor Bettie Parker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Suburbs are a microcosm of America, people there are going to have Black neighbors and Hispanic neighbors. That's not to say there is no segregation, but they are not miles and miles away from people of color. And your kids may be intermixing with them in all kinds of ways if you are White.

William Frey.Read MoreTrump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As we get into Netflix being available around the world, we get into human rights issues, georgia Peach is a microcosm of what will happen around the world.

Paul Hardart

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In some ways, it really is a microcosm of what is happening in our culture. We're moving toward this greater receptivity to accusations of sexual violence.

Deborah Tuerkheimer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

One obvious difference is that there are now women who have come forward and who are willing to cooperate with the prosecution, in some ways, it really is a microcosm of what is happening in our culture. We're moving toward this greater receptivity to accusations of sexual violence.

Deborah Tuerkheimer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Today is a microcosm of what we've had all week : mixed messages, every message has contradicted itself.

Art Hogan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Palazzo doesn't want to meet with any of his constituents or his opponents. He thinks he's going to rule from that little microcosm he has, i've gone to town hall meetings where he did not show up. They just put his picture on the chair.

Carol Brody

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What I see here in motorcycling is a microcosm for the whole country, i get the feeling sometimes that people that don't believe in what's going on is right can become very quiet.

Michael Lichter

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Perez coming in at this time only further drives a wedge in the Democratic Party, what we're seeing play out, in a microcosm here in New York, is that the party elites are out of touch with where the base of the party is at.

Jonathan Westin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don’t care how secure you think your organization is, I’ll social engineer my way inside in less than 24 hours regardless of the sophistication of your IoT microcosm security. Whatever obstacles I run into exploiting your technical vulnerabilities will be made up for by exploiting the vulnerabilities in the cyber hygiene of your staff.

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

A CISO's job is to streamline, harmonize and propagate cybersecurity and cyber hygiene throughout the organizational IoT microcosm and staff

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

The Frankensteined architectonic IoT microcosm of the prototypical critical infrastructure organization renders an infinite attack surface just begging to be exploited.

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

A vulnerability in an organization's IoT microcosm is a taunt to exploit by malicious hackers.

James Scott

added by Matthew jhon
6 years ago

A hotel makes for a particularly interesting place to observe differences in mental resilience, and be able to offer suggestions as to how it might be improved, it's a unique microcosm filled with people under differing types and degrees of mental pressure, from jet lag to meetings to poor sleep.

Tara Swart

Found on CNN
6 years ago

This is a global deal. It is like we are all having an identity crisis at once, what happened 20 years ago is a microcosm of what is coming full bloom today. And these things are going to need to be worked out.

Bill Clinton

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The results are further indications that the leaders in their respective spaces are taking market shares and Apple Inc is very much a microcosm of the internet as a whole.

Benchmark Company analyst Daniel Kurnos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I think quite frankly (Kerry's) visit is a microcosm of the confusion about U.S. policy towards Russia, it's a lot of political capital to send the secretary of state if you don't have a clear objective of what you want to accomplish.

Heather Conley

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

People assume sports are safe, but there is an ugly underbelly we need to be mindful of, sports are a microcosm of our society, and until our society becomes more civil there is no reason to expect to see more civility in sports.

Mitch Abrams

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I would characterize that as a microcosm of this entire campaign, he's willing to roll up his sleeves and go out there and do the hard grass-roots work that is necessary to win delegates.

Lowman Henry

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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