universal
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It does not appear to represent a universal biological rule.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Nick Heiner, head of reinforcement learning environments at data training company Surge AI, put it more simply: “It’s just a universal term for the act of improving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Now 84, Sanders has advocated for universal healthcare since the 1970s while watching Americans fall deeper into medical debt.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Hardware is a universal classic — as much as diamonds or pearls are a universal classic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Taps the rim of his glass, universal symbol for “Get me a refill.”
From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz
A new study finds that about one-third of long-standing "linguistic universals" are backed by strong statistical evidence when tested using modern evolutionary methods.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
Appealing to universals, Mr. Blair recognizes the basic physiological realities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2025
“The book touches on many universals, one of which is the ever-present problem of tyranny,” Rivera says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
“But the search for universals took place in only one corner of the language universe.”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023
This was one of the universals I had so far avoided.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Vocabulary lists containing universal
Power Prefix: uni-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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