omnipresent

omnipresent, ubiquitous mean present or existent everywhere. Though they carry this as a basic meaning, they are often used hyperbolically.

Something omnipresent is present everywhere at the same time. Though basically applicable to the Supreme Being

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omnipresent Deity

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the term is often, especially in a weakened sense, applied to something that is or is felt to be always present or existent (as in a class or a type wherever it may be found or in an area to which it belongs)

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an omnipresent sense of social obligation— Eliot

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the creeping, silent atmosphere of omnipresent fear that I have sensed in the capitals of the satellite countries— Wechsberg

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the mechanization of entertainment through ... the omnipresent radio— Millett

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Something ubiquitous is found everywhere and, often, at the time or in the situation specified or implied

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electrons being so numerous and so ubiquitous—Darrow

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the big public services will have to be made practically ubiquitous— Shaw

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Ubiquitous is applicable to a type or an individual, often with the specific implication that one cannot escape him or it wherever one goes

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the ubiquitous American tourist

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the sad, ubiquitous spinster, left behind ... by the stampede of the young men westward— Brooks

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