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Recent Examples of univocal An understanding of user diversity is often unexplored territory for brands, requiring a shift from univocal to multi-frequency communication that constantly and comprehensively reignites connection with targets, drawing them in and reaffirming values, proving to be a true asset. Fairchild Studio, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024 Her inability to distill a message from her show is a testament not so much to Jane’s insufficient writerly chops as to the challenge of wringing out a univocal meaning from biracial America. Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024 Today’s political mainstream consists of a rising univocal, powerful, and intolerant pro-war movement for which the invasion is existential. Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2022 But the narrative emerging from key players in the Arab world for which Tunisia’s Arab Spring legacy presents a clear challenge — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt — was far more univocal: The events in Tunisia marked the death knell for political Islam in democracy. Washington Post, 27 July 2021 Yet, as with almost everything Shostakovich wrote, the score defeats a univocal interpretation, its classical four-movement structure interlaced with political, personal, and purely musical messages. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2022 Who Lived Her Songs—Cash greatly complicates the popcult caricature of country music as a univocal genre of jingoist belligerence and boosterism, as exemplified by Toby Keith, Daryl Worley, Hank Williams Jr., and the late-career Charlie Daniels. Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2021 To be sure, a great deal of Irish verse during the 1910s and 1920s, univocal ‘in the intensity and wrath of [its] invective,’ lacked the rhetorical nuance of Yeats’ Modernism. Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 20 May 2021 According to the Morgans, the House of Commons allowed no American petition to be read into the record and debated, on the grounds of a univocal recoil, by the Commons, from the Americans’ assertion of the right of representation. William Hogeland, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for univocal
Adjective
  • But what Justice Barrett was asking specifically, is whether there is a history of de jure—meaning explicit, government sanctioned—discrimination against transgender people.
    Chase Strangio, Time, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The precise limits of how much Congress may delegate this power to the executive are unclear—indeed, the Supreme Court in last term's Loper Bright v. Raimondo seemed to give wide latitude for Congress to make explicit, flexible delegations to the executive.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Your provider may order laboratory tests to make a definite diagnosis.
    Laura Schober, Health, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The bottom line: There is still a strong push to regulate tech more strongly in D.C., and some definite throughlines from Biden to Trump on antitrust.
    Ashley Gold, Axios, 3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Ian later realized that the 20-odd people who had created the ruckus had come to the concert for the express purpose of intimidating her.
    Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Some coupons sometimes unlock free express shipping for a lower, or no minimum purchase.
    Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The recall affects specific lots of 1.15-ounce Original Beef, which are sold in 12-count pouches, 8-count pouches, and single sticks.
    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Former admissions officers frequently remind students that college isn't about landing at a specific school.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Crypto Confidential: Forbes' definitive guide to crypto and blockchain, delivered to your inbox every Saturday.
    Javier Bastardo, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Technologies can provide a secure record of transactions and other methodologies offer definitive origin verification.
    SJ Studio, Sourcing Journal, 31 Mar. 2025

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“Univocal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/univocal. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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