milieu
the social or cultural setting in which something occurs
Milieu in a sentence
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She thrived in the bohemian milieu of artists and writers.
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Modern editors have softened many passages that earlier audiences accepted without protest, finding blank what their grandparents had regarded as merely robust and good-humored.
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