It's Merriam-Webster's word of the day for December 28th.

Today's word is ubiquitous, spelled U-B-I-Q-I-U-I-T-O-S.

Ubidus is an adjective.

It's a synonym of the word widespread and describes things that are actually or seemingly seen or encountered everywhere.

Here's the word used in a sentence from the New York Times by Molina Reisic.

Though she's been a singer and performer for six decades,

Sheer had never made one of Pop's most ubiquitous and commercially viable releases a Christmas

album.

To be sure, the title of the Academy Award-winning 2022 film Everything Everywhere All At Once,

Starring Academy Award-winning actress Michelle Yo as the reluctant hero traversing

the multiverse is the better choice. But may we just say that the word ubiquitous would have also made sense as a title.

After all, ubiquitous describes the thing of the everything everywhere all at once in the blockbuster

movie's name and does it in one handy four-syllable word.

Ubiquitous comes from the noun, ubiquity, meaning presence, everywhere, or in many places

simultaneously, and both words come ultimately everywhere or in many places simultaneously.

And both words come ultimately from the Latin word

Ubiqui, meaning everywhere.

Ubiquitous, which has often been used with a touch of exaggeration to describe those things that it seems like

you can't go a day without encountering is the more popular of the two by a PARSC. It may not quite be ubiquitous, but if you keep your eyes

and ears open, you're apt to encounter it quite a bit. With your word of the day, I'm

Peter Sokolowski.

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