ubiquitous

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Variation in biological traits is ubiquitous, and so establishing whether a mechanism is functioning normally is difficult: nonetheless, biologists do it all the time.

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  1. adjective Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent: "plodded through the shadows fruitlessly like an ubiquitous spook” (Joseph Heller).

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  • The birds were ubiquitous, and they saw a larger species of monkey high in a tree, but no other animals. —  A Ring And A Promise
  • Variation in biological traits is ubiquitous, and so establishing whether a mechanism is functioning normally is difficult: nonetheless, biologists do it all the time. —  Concepts of Disease and Health
  • This approach to testing hypotheses and theories is ubiquitous, and should be captured by an adequate inductive logic. —  Inductive Logic
  • The Gestapo and its informers were ubiquitous, and Jünger himself was under constant observation (already in 1933 subjected to repeated house searches) because he was considered in Nazi circles to be one of the most "dangerous" men in von Stülpnagel's entourage, the other being Pastor Damrath. —  An Exchange on Ernst Jünger
  • Today the images of the so-called underclass are ubiquitous, a permanent fixture in American popular culture-in film and TV, where they're the foil of choice for the forces of law and order; in rap music and videos, where the gangsta life is glorified and mimicked by white and black teenagers alike (although white teenagers, at least, are aware that theirs is just a pose); and on the nightly news, where the depredation to be found in the inner city always makes for good copy. —  The Audacity of Hope
 

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/juˈbɪkwɪtəs/
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