Popular
Popular adjective - Accepted, used, or practiced by most people.
Usage example: the popular custom of exchanging greeting cards during the holiday season
Universal is a synonym for popular in common topic. In some cases you can use "Universal" instead an adjective "Popular", when it comes to topics like property, widespread.
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Lyrics vary, but the most universal and popular lyrical theme for metal is death.
Source: Useful Notes / Heavy Metal -
The most common, easiest way to write 80x86 programs for OS X is with Apple's Xcode IDE — this is part of what held up Universal releases of popular apps like Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office until 2007-2008.
Source: Useful Notes / Mac OS - Mini/Franky aka Minky was easily the most popular ship of the third generation (with the possible exception of Beta Couple Rich/Grace), though, like the example above, it's not so universal that there isn't some Ship-to-Ship Combat.... with Mini/Alo.
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