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The ceiling of the Gubbio studiolo, meanwhile, represents an even more subtle cosm (et) ology.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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There has been a lot of talk in recent days about how factory farmed animals are the cause of the deadly hybrid virus that is eerily mutating, and some are calling it cosm ...
Kathy Freston: The Swine Flu And Worldwide Economic Recession: Humanity's Salvation? 2009
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This marks the 41st installment of my Moorcock/Zelazny/Vance cosm-spanning heroic adventure, the one in which Flavius comes eye-to-eye with something far larger than himself, searches for his lost sword and winds up doing a fairly passable imitation of Bilbo Baggins on the Forest River:
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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At the time I first wrote it, I was simply trying for an absurdly incredible image through which to stress the separation of that alien cosm from ours.
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Tyler Cowen writes, real world political debate is not fundamentally a macro-cosm of the thought processes of a smart person, or of one smart person debating another.
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At the time I first wrote it, I was simply trying for an absurdly incredible image through which to stress the separation of that alien cosm from ours.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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There has been a lot of talk in recent days about how factory farmed animals are the cause of the deadly hybrid virus that is eerily mutating, and some are calling it cosm ...
Kathy Freston: The Swine Flu And Worldwide Economic Recession: Humanity's Salvation? 2009
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This marks the 41st installment of my Moorcock/Zelazny/Vance cosm-spanning heroic adventure, the one in which Flavius comes eye-to-eye with something far larger than himself, searches for his lost sword and winds up doing a fairly passable imitation of Bilbo Baggins on the Forest River:
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POUL ANDERSON culmination, the supreme expression of the cyber-cosm?
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
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The technicians were introducing it to the cyber-cosm, gradually, gently.
The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994
synthgnostic commented on the word cosm
An invented word of mine (as far as I know):
An example of an idea, concept, or class which is the same size as the main; in between a macrocosm and a microcosm.
December 25, 2009
seanahan commented on the word cosm
Those words use the Greek cosmos which refers to order, or generally the universe as a whole. So your idea of cosm is pretty similar to that meaning.
December 31, 2009