unified

adjective

uni·​fied ˈyü-nə-ˌfīd How to pronounce unified (audio)
: brought together as one
Although police subculture is often treated as a unified and coherent whole, it is, in fact, riven by conflict and contradictions in normative orders.Steve Herbert
For the rebels, loss of these bases was not only tactical but also factional: members of what had been considered a unified ethnic group and the core of the rebel movements in Burma could no longer maintain their group integrity.Curtis N. Thomson
As it is, the fact of a single unified sovereignty ensures that these regions must remain persistently stunted relative to those of central Japan.Jane Jacobs
In fact, our culture is not one unified system but rather consists of competing systems …Thomas McLaughlin

Examples of unified in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Despite the headline-grabbing takeaway that ASEAN seems to be gravitating toward China, experts—including Seah—say the report actually demonstrates the difficulty of attributing a unified attitude toward the U.S.-China rivalry to the notoriously divided bloc. Koh Ewe, TIME, 2 Apr. 2024 This will allow the scaling up of energy- and area-efficient bandwidths for direct, optical GPU-to-GPU communication, such that hundreds of servers can behave as a single giant GPU with a unified memory. Mark Liu, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2024 People really don’t get a unified position on hardly anything. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024 The new unified app is currently in testing and will let Microsoft Teams users switch between multiple tenants and personal or work account types. Tom Warren, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2024 Last week, Central Bank governor Sadiq Kabir wrote to parliament asking it to approve a new unified government and a national budget over GNU extent spending. Reuters, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024 If a rainbow is marvellous, then understanding how all the colors of the rainbow are present, unified, in ordinary white light—that’s more marvellous. Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024 This was Russia’s first time vetoing what has previously been a routine annual vote to extend the panel’s mandate, which had signified a unified global opposition to North Korea’s expansion of its nuclear weapons program and violations of international sanctions. Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024 Most of the bills that are still active have passed strict party lines, with unified Democratic opposition, a signal to Hobbs to reject the measures. Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1859, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unified was in 1859

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“Unified.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unified. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.

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