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Six example sentences with milieu, each labelled with its topic.
The painter left Vienna for the milieu of a fishing village, and his palette changed within a single season.
Art
Children moved into a calmer milieu slept longer within a month, even when nothing about their schooling changed.
Psychology
The essay argues that no idea survives transplanting, because an argument carries the milieu that produced it wherever it goes.
Philosophy
The novel captures the milieu of a boarding house in 1950s Dublin, down to the smell of boiled cabbage in the hallway.
Literature
The accelerator's milieu, all whiteboards and late pizza, pushed cautious founders to ship features they would have polished for months.
Startups
Bernard argued that the body keeps its internal milieu steady, holding temperature and salt levels constant whatever the weather outside.
Medicine
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