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UNIVERSALLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Everywhere
Example:
people universally agree on this
Classified under:
Context examples:
But they were best (and universally) known for the collection of over two hundred folk tales they made from oral sources and published in two volumes of Nursery and Household Tales in 1812 and 1814.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
As we were going through some of the magnificent passages, I inquired of Mr. Creakle and his friends what were supposed to be the main advantages of this all-governing and universally over-riding system?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Grade 0 is universally defined as absence of Adverse Events or within normal limits or values.
(Absent Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)
He was universally reckoned the most ignorant and stupid person among them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Of course I did not—I had never heard of him before; but the old lady seemed to regard his existence as a universally understood fact, with which everybody must be acquainted by instinct.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"We found that facial analysis services performed consistently worse on transgender individuals, and were universally unable to classify non-binary genders," said lead author Morgan Klaus Scheuerman.
(Facial recognition software has a gender problem, National Science Foundation)
She was proved to have been universally mistaken; and she had not quite done nothing—for she had done mischief.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She danced next with an officer, and had the refreshment of talking of Wickham, and of hearing that he was universally liked.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
And these were all the notions he had concerning that faculty of lying, so perfectly well understood, and so universally practised, among human creatures.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
