ubiquity

noun

ubiq·ui·ty yü-ˈbi-kwə-tē

: presence everywhere or in many places especially simultaneously : omnipresence

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Segal said if momentum for a ban picks up inside the government, the action would have to be implemented in phases, given the ubiquity of the TP-Link router. —

Kevin Williams, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2025 Previous adaptations had been distinctly Bronze Age (the generation of comics that first saw Marvel’s rise to pop culture ubiquity) in their stories and themes. —

Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025 Firefighters are warning that the smoke pouring out of neighborhoods in Southern California is a poisonous soup, in part because of the ubiquity of plastics and other petrochemical products inside them. —

Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2025 Now, in the age of generative AI and the ubiquity of these technologies, the importance of the Content Authenticity Initiative became 10x, because suddenly all of this stuff, anything in your mind could be generated in a second. —

Megan Poinski, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for ubiquity

Word History

Etymology

Latin ubique everywhere, from ubi where + -que, enclitic generalizing particle; akin to Latin quis who and to Latin -que and — more at who, sesqui-

First Known Use

1572, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler

The first known use of ubiquity was in 1572

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