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"ref": "1911, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:",
"text": "In Logic, the letter A is used as a symbol for the universal affirmative proposition in the general form \"all x is y.\"",
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"ref": "1922, Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther, chapter 4, in My Life and Work, Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., →OCLC:",
"text": "I had been planning every day through these years toward a universal car.",
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"code": "el",
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"text": "[John] Dryden's univerſal genius, his firmly eſtablished reputation, and the glory his memory muſt always reflect upon the nation that gave him birth, make us ardently wiſh for a more accurate life of him than any which has hitherto appeared: […]",
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"word": "universell"
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