universal
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That universal basic income won’t arrive in one headline bill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The new approach is built around Quantum lattice gates, a recently proposed universal set of quantum gates developed by the same research team.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
This helps explain how everything added up into a feeling I found to be universal among Albanians: Enough is enough.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Her barrister Alice Sykes said her client would be able to pay the compensation, as she was working full-time as an estate agent on £1,700 a month, as well as receiving universal credit.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
A universal shriek arose as the russet boots waved wildly from the wreck and a golden head emerged, exclaiming, “I told you so! I told you so!”
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
"I am delighted that the different types of analyses we did converged on very similar results, suggesting that language change must be a central component in explaining universals."
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
Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages.
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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