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- a or an ubiquitous? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I am unsure whether to use "a" or "an" in the following sentence: Video games have become a an ubiquitous part of American culture For me, saying the two sentences out loud makes "an" seem like
- Is knowledge of the meaning of the word “ubiquity” ubiquitously . . .
The difference between mentions of "ubiquitous" and "pervasive" is the largest, probably because of the greater difference in meaning Note: @DanBron's original comment suggests the word "everywhere" as an example
- Whats the difference between pervasive and ubiquitous?
I think the difference is given in the definitions above; the difference between pervasive and ubiquitous is the difference between somewhere and everywhere But if you add a qualifying prepositional clause, the difference goes away: "pervasive among the younger generation" and ubiquitous in the younger generation" mean the same thing
- Correct usage of ubiquitous - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
It's really just a stylistic choice, but I have the impression ubiquitous is more likely to be used of concrete nouns such as Chromebooks Abstract nouns such as usage are more likely to be prevalent
- Omnipresent is to Ubiquitous as Omnipotent is to _____? [closed]
Omnipresent connotes a single entity that is everywhere at once Ubiquitous usually is used when many instances of a thing can be found everywhere And I think the "seemingly everywhere" is just using ubiquitous as an exaggeration, which is often the case because there aren't many things, if any, that are truly ubiquitous
- vocabulary - to get ubiquitous or to become ubiquitous . . .
You'd be more likely to say that computers got faster or got more powerful than got more ubiquitous A side issue is whether ubiquitous is in fact scalable; I don't particularly object to more ubiquitous, since it’s understood as what I would phrase as more nearly ubiquitous, but some have a legitimate argument against it
- Verb form for the word ubiquitous or widespread
the sentence I am trying to create is used everywhere in this report I am trying to proofread and semantically goes like this: "Increasing the use of internet" or "making infrastructure establishment widespread across the nation" I am looking for a verb more practical than "making sth widespread" or a proper verb version of "ubiquitous" I have
- word choice - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
A invisible B omnipresent C diminutive D ubiquitous E minuscule F ethereal In my opinion, "diminutive" and "minuscule" are the appropriate words for the blank and the sentence makes sense (Admittedly, microorganisms are extremely small, but they constitute a larger part of living protoplasm than all humans, animals and plants combined )
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