Word For The Day (1/8/18) Ubiquitous

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WORD FOR THE DAY(1/8/18)Ubiquitous



: existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread
• a ubiquitous fashion
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ubiquitously

adverb
— ubiquitousness

adjective


First Known Use: 1772

Examples of ubiquitous in a Sentence

1. Hot dogs are the ideal road trip food—inexpensive, portable, ubiquitous. —Paul Lucas,  Saveur,  June/July 2008
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. The company's advertisements are ubiquitous.
6. by that time cell phones had become ubiquitous, and people had long ceased to be impressed by the sight of one

Recent Examples of ubiquitous from the Web

• Once upon a time, after all, festive hair and makeup was gloriously high-maintenance—and while clean skin and windblown, wash and go waves may be ubiquitous these days, who wants to be out-sparkled by a glass of champagne or a trussed-up tree?
— jenna rennert, Vogue, "6 Outrageously Pretty Holiday Hair and Makeup Ideas from the Vogue Archives," 25 Dec. 2017
• Volunteers for the group have been ubiquitous across the state, collecting the necessary 315,654 petition signatures from registered Michigan voters that are needed to get the constitutional amendment on the ballot.
— kathleen gray, Detroit Free Press, "Anti-gerrymander group turns in signatures to get on Nov. ballot in Michigan," 18 Dec. 2017
• Even the ways in which this thirtysomething single mother finds potential matches – at her restaurant’s bar, via a fix-up by her mother, through sheer serendipity – seem antiquated in our current era of ubiquitous online dating.
— julia m. klein, Philly.com, "'Bad Dates' at Act II Playhouse: A little behind the times, but the shoes are dazzling," 17 Dec. 2017


Did You Know?

Ubiquitous comes to us from the noun ubiquity, meaning "presence everywhere or in many places simultaneously." Ubiquity first appeared in print in the late 16th century, but ubiquitous didn't make an appearance until 1830. (Another noun form, ubiquitousness, arrived around 1874.) 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 for things and people that seem to turn up everywhere, 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.

Origin and Etymology of ubiquitous

see ubiquity

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Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

MY ENTRY:

Even though Hillary stickers were ubiquitous in the county, Trump won by a landslide, which proves that stickers do not equal votes.

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Sorry I am a little late this morning!

I noticed Jake Tapper used my last Monday “WFTD” (obsequious), incorrectly, and it made him look petty and foolish.

Words are weapons, and should be used WISELY! LOL!

[Red Badger]

Tapper is a obsequious toadie for the ubiquitous left wing mediots...............

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Ha Ha Ha! Yes. He is.

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Two Monday WFTD’s in ONE Sentence! I’m IMPRESSED! :-)

[mikrofon]

Within the media culture, It’s no surprise that those obsequious to Obama and Leftist principles are ubiquitous …

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WOW! Another double WFTD in one sentence!

The democrat fields are rich and ripe for WFTD harvest. LOL!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Unfortunately, there are no other nations left to colonize and begin a new society based on morals and entrepreneurship and Christian capitalism. Otherwise I’d strongly recommend UbequittheUS very rapidly!

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There is always Antarctica! :-)

[Texan5]

The ubiquitous howl of liberals
Is both annoying and amusing-
It’s a source of great delight
When they get a real bruising

Since they live in a Lalaland
Of the politically-so-correct
A beatdown is what they need
To assist them to reconnect-

Just step away from the bong
Stop the tantrums and games-
Melt those fragile snowflakes
Before they go down in flames...

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EXCELLENT!

:-)

[Texan5]

I think it would be better to tell the liberals they need to leave if they want to keep on whining and rioting instead of doing some real work for a real paycheck-and Antarctica seems like the perfect place for all the snowflakes, too-let them preach global warming there-they’ll have to grow veggies in heated greenhouses to keep from starving...

[Texan5]

Thank you!

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Yes. And there is lots of elbow room in Antarctica, so everyone can have their own feifdom, far away from everybody else.

Then they will have NOBODY to complain about! :-)

[Texan5]

You’d think that would work-but as clueless and idle as most of them seem to be, they’d most likely be attacking the neighboring fiefdoms-breaking into their greenhouses and carrying off all the produce because it is easier than growing their own...

But at least if they are fighting and stealing from their neighbors instead of breeding and working with them, their gene pool will shrink-they will lose fertility and go extinct in a generation of two...

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Yes Indeed.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Hmmmn.
Antarctica.

Or Vermont. My son reports their little town neighborhood “might” get above 0 degrees F tomorrow. For the first time in 10 days.

[Texan5]

Now that is Alaska/Great White North weather. If liberals were to go to and crowd together into all of Vermont like they do when they infest cities everywhere, I’m sure they’d produce enough local warming just by bitching and whining to thaw out the state in less then a week.