Most Emojis are universally understood — even the ones you can't imagine finding use for.
Mrs. James had long been a fabric addict, an affliction most commonly seen in women and not universally understood by men.
Most scholars who embrace some version of the social model acknowledge that impairments – generally but not universally understood as deviations from species-relative statistical norms – can be sources of discomfort and limitation even in the absence of disadvantaging social practices.
It is, I suppose, the most basic kind of everyday ethical problem: if there is an established social order (where the rules are universally understood), is it ever O.K. for someone to break the unspoken agreement everyone else has made, particularly in situations in which very little is at stake?
Civility and aggressive vulgarity are universally understood.
The rules are unwritten but universally understood.
It's safe, efficient and universally understood.
The pull of New York is universally understood.
Once upon a time, a handshake was uniform and universally understood.
