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The phrase "a universal feature of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a characteristic or quality that is found everywhere or in all instances of a particular context.
Example: "The ability to communicate is a universal feature of human societies, transcending cultures and languages."
Alternatives: "a common trait of" or "a widespread characteristic of".
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This classification is taken as a universal feature of religion.
Jared Diamond on why supernatural beliefs, despite being irrational, are such a universal feature of religion.
Rape is also a universal feature of human life, and may have been selected for, but who would conclude on this basis that rape is morally defensible?
High stress is a universal feature of burst-prone conditions.
Such spiral structure is suggested to be a universal feature of steady, uniform-vorticity flows.
Even the capacity to reproduce does not accurately characterize a universal feature of organismic life cycles.
That finding raised doubts about whether DLM really was a universal feature of human language.
Thus, Poisson-like randomness is not a universal feature of neocortex.
By contrast, racial categorisation varies historically and cross-culturally, and racial oppression is not a universal feature of human cultures.
(4) Walter Stace sees paradoxality as a universal feature of mystical experiences, equating 'paradoxality' with an intended logical contradiction (Stace, 1961, 212. See section 4 below).
An analysis of 37 widely varying languages may have uncovered a universal feature of human language: All of the languages evolved to make communication as efficient as possible.
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