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Two of the three words in your example are proper names, which the author decided not to include.

The full "ub" list in cmudict is: ubben uber ubiquitous ubiquity ubuntu

Ubben is a name as well, so it should leave us with uber, ubiquitous and ubiquity.

I think uber might have been dropped by accident because of Uber.

I think it'd be reasonable to keep uber, but I had dropped it because it wasn't in /usr/share/dict/words on Linux or Mac. That was a quick&dirty way to filter out proper names, but it misses some other words too.

I was wondering why you involved that dictionary, but this makes sense.

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