UNIVERSALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does universally mean? 

• UNIVERSALLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNIVERSALLY has 1 sense:

1. everywhere

  Familiarity information: UNIVERSALLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Everywhere

Context example:

people universally agree on this

 Context examples 

While intraductal (or DCIS) carcinomas can arise at other sites, these terms are universally used to refer to carcinomas of the breast.

(Intracystic Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

My idea of him is, that he can adapt his conversation to the taste of every body, and has the power as well as the wish of being universally agreeable.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

While ductal carcinomas can arise at other sites, this term is universally used to refer to carcinomas of the breast.

(Ductal Breast Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Sir John, who called on them more than once, brought home such accounts of the favour they were in, as must be universally striking.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Synbiotic interventions can be provided universally in South Asian countries where public health resources are limited.

(Friendly gut bacteria can help fight infant deaths, SciDev.Net )

With hundreds of GPCRs in the body, the findings could be universally applied.

(Heart Disease Severity May Depend on Nitric Oxide Levels, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

At once to insist upon having such a report universally contradicted.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The score derived from universally embraced prostate cancer grading system developed by Dr. Donald F. Gleason in 1977.

(Gleason Score for Prostate Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

The folk here hold almost universally that the captain is simply a hero, and he is to be given a public funeral.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Bouganin is a plant-derived ribosome-inactivating protein (RIP), a toxic plant N-glycosidase that depurinates the universally conserved alpha-sarcin loop of ribosomal rRNA, inactivating the ribosome and preventing protein synthesis.

(Citatuzumab Bogatox, NCI Thesaurus)