universal
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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
Previous researchers had proposed as many as six gentoo subspecies, but there was no universal agreement.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
"I try to put all that in there… and hope that's a universal feeling because it's really madly important to me that women, especially, watch it and see themselves reflected back."
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
He used the gesture universal in the north to signify friendship, and laid his rifle down at his feet.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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
Vocabulary lists containing universal
Power Prefix: uni-
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Four Power Prefixes: anti-, con-, inter-, and uni-.
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