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ubiquitous
/juˈbɪkwɪtəs/
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Stress BIK after the opening you sound. Join k and w in the middle; keep the ending light.
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“A ubiquitous feature of modern life.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does ubiquitous mean?
adjective
- Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
- Appearing to be everywhere at once; being or seeming to be in more than one location at the same time.
- Widespread; very prevalent.
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/juˈbɪkwɪtəs/
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No sooner has he turned to a fresh quarter than the ubiquitous whistle again sounds behind his back.
In the meantime Derues, through his bustling and ubiquitous friend Bertin, took good care that the story of Mme.
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An ubiquitous cud of fine-cut, flattening his cheek and saturating his veins, possibly explains his life of semicontent--for tobacco is a sedative.
To most people the name Virginia carries with it limitless vistas of tobacco fields covered with darkies plying the hoe, or picking off the ubiquitous worm.
In lofty and capacious glass-enclosed cabinets, in company with numerous models of Edison's inventions, repose many of the costly and elaborate instruments rendered useless by the ubiquitous trolley.