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 But others have suggested a middle path option, which would allow regional geographic conferences to decide for themselves and not have a unified policy across all of the church. Jason Derose, NPR, 23 Apr. 2024 This city has shown me a spirit that’s both varied and unified, where every person brings a piece of their heritage to the collective, creating something uniquely Oakland. Amber Turpin, The Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2024 Bass also serves on the board of the Environmental Media Association, an organization that provides a unified voice for our planet through entertainment, storytelling and education. Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 22 Apr. 2024 Later that year, New Jersey adopted a unified rule set, banning blows to the back of the head and spine or strikes to the throat, ahead of other states following suit. Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2024 Both DiMartino and Konietzko are on board to executive produce the trilogy, which will be told as separate stories as opposed to a unified three-parter. Jessica Wang, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2024 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

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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 2 May. 2024.

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