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developing or evolving in a steady, consistent, and undeviating way

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  • The effects of the electronic media were complex and far from unilinear.
  • But they have not been “passive subjects in a unilinear history of decline.”
  • Processes of this magnitude are unlikely to proceed in a straight and unilinear fashion.
  • He's what the anthropologists call a "unilinear evolutionist" -- traces everything through marriage rites/rights.
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