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microcosm
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microcosm, microcosmos
man regarded as epitomizing the universe


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The sediment and digester inocula were diluted in anaerobic mineral medium (1:9, vol/vol), and the cultures were maintained in microcosms and mesocosms comprising 160-mL and 2-L glass vessels, respectively, with serum bottle closures, using the methods described by Becket et al.
Today, Los Angeles libraries are less urban literary oases than microcosms of the big city that surrounds them, plagued by many of the same problems.
His efforts are most successful in poems like "Bedazzled," "Gluttony" and "Devilment"--studies of nature and the microcosms of the everyday.
 
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