How to Use cosmology in a Sentence

cosmology

noun
  • The researchers want to use this study to spin off a whole new area of cosmology research.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As the joke goes, even for cosmology, that’s a big margin of error.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
  • That’s a happy meld, those three men, that will always be a part of my cosmology through the song.
    — Hilary Hughes, Billboard, 21 June 2018
  • Each of the four ages in Hindu cosmology, in fact, is thought to be named for a throw of the dice.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • But the story doesn't end with cosmology.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Gone was the cosmology of hell realms and hungry ghosts and karma and rebirth.
    — David Kortava, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Yet these voids’ very existence can also tell us quite a bit about cosmology.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Or maybe twenty years is enough time to orient oneself to the band’s unique cosmology.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
  • This is a question about the cosmology of Tolkien’s universe and the show.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2024
  • The fact that this does not happen is one of the great mysteries of modern cosmology.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Yolngu cosmology is a lot harder to grasp than the visual power of the clans’ art.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The game of cosmology in the latter half of the 20th century was to go deep.
    — Paul Sutter Astrophysicist, Fox News, 30 June 2017
  • The consequences for him are outsized to the action in my moral cosmology, right?
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 May 2023
  • Creation stories, cosmologies, maps, myths, even cities are all forms of worldbuilding.
    — Michael James Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Charles Yuen Yuen’s paintings are tense and alive with his cosmology and inner life.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
  • For more than a decade, cosmology has been stuck with a puzzling contradiction.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
  • That can help explain some of the biggest unsolved questions in cosmology.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Maybe they can be inspired to find connection to their own cosmology and their own ancestors.
    — Sarit Luban, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
  • The finding tipped the balance firmly in favor of the big bang picture of cosmology.
    — Martin Rees, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Cosmology deals with the big questions of the universe, often the same questions that keep philosophers up at night.
    — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
  • The dual nature of rain is also present in the cosmology of the Aztecs who named their rain god Tlāloc.
    — Deborah Netburnstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The pre-bang universe has become the latest frontier of cosmology.
    — Gabriele Veneziano, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2012
  • In the end, in a complete cosmology this will have to be incorporated.
    — Alexander Hellemans, Scientific American, 24 May 2018
  • Pisani teaches a course there in cosmology—the structure and evolution of the universe.
    — Michael D. Lemonick, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Hawking's research focused on cosmology and the basic laws of the universe.
    — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Aztec cosmology held that 13 heavens were arranged in layers above the Earth.
    — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The first half of the book is largely devoted to recounting the history of big bang cosmology.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 16 July 2022
  • In fact, most of us were outsiders to cosmology, doing our main work in the fields of particle physics and quantum-field theory.
    — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
  • If art and craft are not separate in Indigenous cosmologies, why still make this distinction?
    — María Carri, Artforum, 16 Apr. 2026

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