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[yoo-nuh-vur-suhl] / ˌju nəˈvɜr səl /


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Is such sheer, universal familiarity the root of love — the kind of connection that everyone from Keats to Keaton wrote about — or does it trap you in one place, stunting your growth?

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

The agent hacked a statistics portal containing "non-sensitive" data from Australia's universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The U.S. should also speak with countries that claim universal jurisdiction over genocide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Maybe it all pays off, and we get universal basic income while AI bots bring us mai tais on the beach.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Maya-Jade paused to spin a finger around her temple, the universal sign for cuckoo.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

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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