Sentence examples for universal word from inspiring English sources

Talk to anyone involved with museum technology and the conversation inevitably boils down to one universal word: engagement.

In January last year, Pope Francis said: Father is a word known by all – a universal word.

Preschooling, to which the notably German contribution in modern times is enshrined in the universal word kindergarten, can begin at 3 years of age.

Is "Huh?" a universal word?

A new study examined languages from around the world and discovered what they say could be a universal word: "Huh?" Researchers traveled to cities and remote villages on five continents, visiting native speakers of 10 very different languages.

Sometimes having a single, universal word that anyone can say to freeze activity is helpful.

So, to give an account of the universality of our universal words, we have to be able to tell in virtue of what they have this universal representative function, that is to say, we have to be able to assign a common cause by the recognition of which in terms of a common concept we can give a common name to a potential infinity of individuals belonging to the same kind.

On the Aristotelian conception of universals as universal predicables, there obviously are universals, namely, our universal words.

The realists are supposed to be those who assert the existence of real universals in and/or before particular things, the conceptualists those who allow universals only, or primarily, as concepts of the mind, whereas nominalists would be those who would acknowledge only, or primarily, universal words.

Like it or not, "nigga" is one of the most universal words on earth; and this is moreover why a recent Facebook post labeling its users stole my attention.

About a year ago, whenever the name of President Obama came up, the near-universal word used by people I know who had worked hard for him in the 2008 campaign was "disappointment".