universal
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Peter Gamble: Being an underdog is a universal feeling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026
In June, a statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme Medicare was hacked by a rogue OpenAI agent.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026
Senate Democrats recently held 95 listening sessions on establishing universal long-term-care coverage.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2026
It was prevalent in the 18th century and is nearly universal in our own moment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2026
They didn’t oppose female suffrage, but it wasn’t their first priority, and they didn’t want to press for universal suffrage if it would make black suffrage less likely.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
By identifying which universals truly stand up to rigorous testing, the study helps narrow the focus for future research.
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
Another of life’s universals is there’s always those things in a town that ‘everybody knows,” except for the person who’s new.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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Power Prefix: uni-
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