as in universe
the whole body of things observed or assumed an essay that ponders the place of humankind in the vast cosmos

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Recent Examples of cosmos The standard model is our basic picture of a cosmos dominated by cold dark matter and dark energy, operating under the province of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Keith Cooper, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2025 So far, the VLT has allowed astronomers to trace orbits of stars in the nearest vicinity of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, taken the first ever image of a planet outside the solar system and uncovered the elusive cosmic web that sprawls across the entire cosmos. Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2025 In essence, the far future of the cosmos becomes the big bang of a new one, and our cosmos is just one of an infinite strand that always seamlessly emerge from each other. Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 14 Jan. 2025 Like its historical predecessors, this mandala is a cosmic chart, but one of a cosmos in distress. Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for cosmos

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“Cosmos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmos. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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