The phrase "almost every civilization" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the characteristics, achievements, or behaviors that are common across most civilizations throughout history.
Example: "Almost every civilization has developed some form of written language to record their history and culture."
Alternatives: "nearly all civilizations" or "most civilizations".
By the standards of today (many of them, let's be honest, observed more in the breach), almost every civilization that has preceded us appears barbaric: patriarchal, bloodthirsty, undemocratic, racist, you name it.
They say, "I am taken," and a large ring says, "I am taken by a rich man that would crush your man, Darwinian-style". From ancient to modern times, societal traditions have been built around jewelry, traditions that have both restricted and expanded possibilities available to women; wedding jewelry exists in almost every civilization.
Even though the Moon was drifting at random, without benefit of faster-then-light speed, it somehow encountered a new civilization almost every week.
Published in 1970 — long before its title became a term on the tongues of liberal-arts majors everywhere — it carefully ferrets out the sexism in almost every aspect of Western civilization, with particular ire reserved for organized religion, capitalism, psychoanalytic theory, and the institution of marriage.
Because the two ingredients necessary to alcoholic fermentation are widely spread and always appear together, civilizations in almost every part of the world developed some form of alcoholic beverage very early in their history.
Natural products (NPs) have been used to treat almost every known ailment, with records from civilizations all over the world, dating as far back as 4,600 years ago [1, 2].
Rather than being a lone citadel in a untrammeled jungle or some mysterious civilization forgotten to time, almost "every river valley will typically have some archaeological find" in Mosquitia, Begley said.
Increasingly, modern historians have come to regard that bleak November "armistice" as a mere truce in a long, terrible conflict that almost sent civilization into total eclipse and that did not really terminate until the peaceful and democratic reunification of Germany after November 1989.
Every civilization must go.
Every civilization has had such systems.
Every civilization has its deluge mythology.
