The phrase "a universal means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a method or tool that is applicable or effective in a wide range of situations or contexts.
Example: "Education is often considered a universal means of improving society and fostering understanding among diverse cultures."
Alternatives: "a common method" or "a global approach".
"English has become a universal means of communication.
The equivalent skeleton void ratio does not fulfill the intent of providing a universal means for characterizing the stress strain behavior of silty sands.
When the industry made the switch, in the late twenties, Chaplin vehemently resisted it; in 1931, he wrote in the Times that "The silent picture, first of all, is a universal means of expression.
Of course, big building projects are a universal means of corruption (although not to this extent), but it's just one of the factors that prevents Russia from becoming a leader by 2030.
In a way, the shame of public humiliation is a universal means of social control.
Despite stickers only being a ticket to riches for the largest social messaging players, Ovum said it expects expressive, pictorial pixels to be even more popular next year — becoming a "universal means of expression over social messaging apps".
Calling a boy "gay," when intended to be insulting, has become a nearly universal means of communicating that he is not perceived to be sufficiently masculine.
With appropriate training, objective muscle strength measurement apparatus may provide a more universal means of assessing changes in muscle strength, remaining relatively independent of examiner and patient factors such as baseline muscle strength.
And making an entitlement universal means that it is more likely to become permanent, as Republicans who sought to overturn health-care reforms, earlier this year, discovered.
Scholars agree that obtaining a single or universal means of measuring social capital at local, national or international level is still challenging (Gallaher et al. 2013; Siegler 2014; Babcicky and Seebauer 2016).
Especially in some key developing markets, including Indonesia and Africa, BBM has underpinned not only communication, but local commerce and business as well as a pretty much universal means of communication that's more reliable, more affordable and potentially more trustworthy than SMS.
