ubiquitous
adjective
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Ubiquitous comes to us from the noun ubiquity, meaning "presence everywhere or in many places simultaneously." Both words are ultimately derived from the Latin word for "everywhere," which is ubique. Ubiquitous, which has often been used with a touch of exaggeration to describe those things that it seems like you can't go a day without encountering, has become a more widespread and popular word than ubiquity. It may not quite be ubiquitous, but if you keep your eyes and ears open, you're apt to encounter the word ubiquitous quite a bit.
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Paul Lucas, Saveur, June/July 2008
Shawarma is the new street meat. Both a late night favourite and a quick lunch classic, the Middle Eastern dish is now ubiquitous on the streets of Toronto.
—Chris Dart, Torontoist, 8 Feb. 2007
In major league locker rooms, ice packs are ubiquitous appendages for pitchers, who wrap their shoulder or elbow or both, the better to calm muscles, ligaments and tendons that have been stressed by the unnatural act of throwing a baseball.
—Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated, 26 Mar. 2007
It was before the day of the ubiquitous automobile. Given one of those present adjuncts to farm life, John would have ended his career much earlier. As it was, they found him lying by the roadside at dawn one morning after the horses had trotted into the yard with the wreck of the buggy bumping the road behind them.
—Edna Ferber, "Farmer in the Dell," 1919,
in One Basket, 1949
The company's advertisements are ubiquitous.
by that time cell phones had become ubiquitous, and people had long ceased to be impressed by the sight of one
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Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2023
The allure of female youth is so culturally ubiquitous that a filmmaker’s examining it from the inside out can be a defamiliarizing exercise.
—Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
But support for the military campaign itself is seemingly so ubiquitous that a question about it is rarely, if ever, asked in such opinion surveys.
—Alexander Smith, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
Poster Activism: In the weeks since the start of the conflict, fliers depicting the hostages have become ubiquitous.
—Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
Wilson is the reigning champ in this category, and seemed to be ubiquitous this year, thanks to heavy touring, a trio of songs surging up the charts, awards show appearances and a campaign with Wrangler.
—Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2023
Uber and Lyft have become ubiquitous in New York, with the easy to use ride-hailing apps largely supplanting the city’s iconic yellow taxi cabs.
—Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
Electric scooters are ubiquitous now, cavalierly and awkwardly piled up on street corners of any global metropolitan center, serving as last-mile solutions for those unwilling to wait in traffic in the backseat of a rideshare car.
—Kevin Williams, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2023
At the sawmill Most single-family homes in North America are wood-frame construction featuring the ubiquitous two-by-four.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
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“Ubiquitous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ubiquitous. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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