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Recent Examples of univocal At a press event this week, the new Paramount leadership expressed their univocal support for theatrical movies. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025 An understanding of user diversity is often unexplored territory for brands, requiring a shift from univocal to multi-frequency communication that constantly and comprehensively reignites connection with targets, drawing them in and reaffirming values, proving to be a true asset. Fairchild Studio, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024 Her inability to distill a message from her show is a testament not so much to Jane’s insufficient writerly chops as to the challenge of wringing out a univocal meaning from biracial America. Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024 Today’s political mainstream consists of a rising univocal, powerful, and intolerant pro-war movement for which the invasion is existential. Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2022 Yet, as with almost everything Shostakovich wrote, the score defeats a univocal interpretation, its classical four-movement structure interlaced with political, personal, and purely musical messages. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022 Who Lived Her Songs—Cash greatly complicates the popcult caricature of country music as a univocal genre of jingoist belligerence and boosterism, as exemplified by Toby Keith, Daryl Worley, Hank Williams Jr., and the late-career Charlie Daniels. Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2021 But the narrative emerging from key players in the Arab world for which Tunisia’s Arab Spring legacy presents a clear challenge — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt — was far more univocal: The events in Tunisia marked the death knell for political Islam in democracy. Washington Post, 27 July 2021 To be sure, a great deal of Irish verse during the 1910s and 1920s, univocal ‘in the intensity and wrath of [its] invective,’ lacked the rhetorical nuance of Yeats’ Modernism. Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 20 May 2021
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  • In recent incidents, Google's Gemini CLI destroyed user files while attempting to reorganize them, and Replit's AI coding service deleted a production database despite explicit instructions not to modify code.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The supplemental essay prompts released for 2025–26 make this explicit.
    Liz Doe Stone, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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  • While the San Francisco 49ers started off their 2025 NFL schedule with a 17-13 road win over the Seattle Seahawks, there are definite reasons for their fans to be concerned.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • That’s been valuable, but even then, there’s no definite timeline for how long this lasts.
    Melissa Showers, Flow Space, 8 Sep. 2025
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    Megan McCluskey, Time, 12 Sep. 2025
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    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • Readers should not rely solely on the content of this article and are encouraged to seek professional advice tailored to their specific circumstances.
    William Jones, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The severity, healing and availability of Purdy’s toe will depend heavily on which toe is injured and what specific part of the toe got injured.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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  • The most definitive way of diagnosing MASH is via a liver biopsy.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The key factor here is whether the product meets our rigorous and definitive clean standard (detailed above) while offering exceptional and impressive results.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Univocal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/univocal. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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