Example Sentences

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It speaks to how isolating online social milieus can be.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2026

Schumer, 74, and Jeffries, 55, hail from different Brooklyn milieus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

Few milieus could be as seductively dramatic as that Chinese city in the 1930s, with its cosmopolitan glamour and wartime danger.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2024

But most television shows offer the conceit of characters inhabiting their own milieus.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2022

Oppenheimer recognized that their social milieus were fated to remain distinct.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik