ubiquitous
seeming to be present everywhere at the same time
Word origin: From Latin ubique, everywhere.
Ubiquitous in a sentence
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Smartphones have become so ubiquitous that it is hard to recall life without them.
Within a decade, smartphones became ubiquitous, found in nearly every pocket.
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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.
Using “ubiquitous” well
Ubiquitous describes something so widespread it seems to be everywhere at once; it is stronger than merely common.
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