universal
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His later proposal for income tax policy was called the “negative income tax,” a form of what today is called universal basic income.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Earlier this year, a rogue agent by rival tech company, Open AI, hacked an Australian government website and accessed private data on the country's universal healthcare scheme, Medicare.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Though she takes inspiration from her personal experiences, many of her plush figures strike a universal note.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
While that notion may be true for some, it’s not universal, and Iñárritu’s haughty assumption only reflects how disconnected “Digger” is from the very reality it presumes to understand well enough to satirize.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
And that music is universal; they have a right to any and all forms of it.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
"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
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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