Ubiquitous

juːˈbɪkwɪtəs

adjective

present, appearing, or found everywhere

The word 'ubiquitous' comes from the Latin word 'ubiquitas', meaning 'everywhere'. It is used to describe something that is constantly encountered or widely recognized in various places.

It was lit from the ubiquitous sun, but felt none of the day’s heat; the boy kept the hawk here and the bird seemed comfortable enough.

Stephen King

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)

She was running from the Second Foundation, or such influence thereof as could be found on Kalgan.” “What influence is this you speak of?” “Do you expect Kalgan to be immune from that ubiquitous menace?

Asimov, Isaac

Foundation 3 - Second Foundation

Before?” There it was again-that simple, ubiquitous word.

King, Stephen

The Stand

It was an inconsistent and ubiquitous fiend too, for, while it was making the whole night behind him dreadful, he darted out into the roadway to avoid dark alleys, fearful of its coming hopping out of them like a dropsical boy’s kite without tail and wings.

Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities

but it was only the spice, the ubiquitous spice whose odor permeated everything in Fremen life.

Herbert, Frank

Dune

Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white piqué dress clean, and chattering with the ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks.

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

This sort of thing is not an oddity -- it is ubiquitous.

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

And, as if to make the case as striking as possible, this cirripede was a Chthamalus, a very common, large, and ubiquitous genus, of which not one species has as yet been found even in any tertiary stratum.

Charles Darwin

The Origin of Species

He winced at the many tortured nights she had spent in the hospital, drugged or in pain, with the ubiquitous, ineradicable odors of ether, fecal matter and disinfectant, of human flesh mortified and decaying amid the white uniforms, the rubbersoled shoes, and the eerie night lights glowing dimly until dawn in the corridors.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22