shared universe

collocation in English

meaningsofsharedanduniverse

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shared
adjective
uk
/ʃeəd/us
/ʃerd/
owned, divided, felt, or experienced by more than ...
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universe
noun
uk
/ˈjuː.nɪ.vɜːs/us
/ˈjuː.nə.vɝːs/
everything that exists, especially all physical matter, including all the stars, planets, galaxies, etc. ...
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(Definition ofsharedanduniversefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In comic books, it is a common-practice for writers to resolve their own dangling plot-lines in other comic books within theshareduniverse.
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This has led to crossover events, in which major occurrences are shown as affecting most or all of the stories in theshareduniverse.
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Works set in ashareduniverseshare characters and other elements with varying degrees of consistency.
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The stories in the line were part of its ownshareduniverse.
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Although taking place in ashareduniverse, it is a stand-alone work that does not require any prior knowledge and features no recurring characters.
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Around this time, ashareduniversebegan to emerge.
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It is ashareduniverseopen to authors of many calibre levels, concerning several alternate history worlds, related to a prime timeline.
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Ashareduniverseis a fictional universe that can be used by different authors.
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The expansion of existing material into ashareduniverseis not restricted to settings licensed from movies and television.
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Not allshareduniversesettings are simply the expansion or combination of pre-existing material by new authors.
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Both settings have suffered from the creative difficulties of maintaining a complexshareduniversehandled by large numbers of writers and editors.
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The archive's community also created or fostered a large number ofshareduniversefiction settings, in part due to a prohibition against traditional fanfiction.
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For the initial arc, the idea of theshareduniversewas deemphasized in favor of giving each title its own identity.
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It is ashareduniverseanthology, meaning all the stories occur in the same fictional universe.
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Some games have all of their servers connected so all players are connected in ashareduniverse.
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The stories are loosely connected in ashareduniversesetting.
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For this reason, some fan fiction and other amateur works written in established settings without permission, are sometimes distinguished fromshareduniversewritings or even described as a stolen universe.
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Literary cameos usually involve an established character from another work who makes a brief appearance to establish ashareduniversesetting, to make a point, or to offer homage.
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While crossovers occur in ashareduniverse, not all crossovers are intended to merge their settings' back-stories and are instead used for marketing, parody, or to explore what-if scenarios.
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