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homogenize

[huh-moj-uh-nahyz, hoh-] / həˈmɒdʒ əˌnaɪz, hoʊ- /




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“Crash” eschewed Charli’s typical boundary-pushing electronic sound to aim for something notably more commercial, and, ever the rebel, Charli attempted to homogenize this marketable music with visual ideas that were more to her own taste.

From Salon Feb. 8, 2026

Previously, the researchers determined that VFD's intense micromixing could produce clean biodiesel from used cooking oil and homogenize raw milk, but they hadn't used the platform to process more goopy liquids, such as shampoos.

From Science Daily Apr. 11, 2024

Usually U.S. remakes of foreign films tend to homogenize the source material.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2022

This is storytelling as an act of resistance against colonialism’s effort to homogenize and erase.

From Washington Post Aug. 23, 2022

These documents are the expression of the need to unify, homogenize, and integrate forces in a world of relatively autonomous entities-national states-competing more for resources and productive forces than for markets.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

“I do get wary of anything that homogenizes us.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

“It really homogenizes Asian American identity to be one thing when it really isn’t,” said Arshad, the Indian American student from Bentonville.

From Washington Post Dec. 19, 2022

Emergency thinking does damage to documentary; as dogma, it homogenizes its suffering victims, reducing its subjects’ stories to an artful piece of publicity.

From The New Yorker Sep. 17, 2019

“They must either track any time that might be the subject of an innovative lawsuit,” Justice Thomas wrote, “or they must defend class actions against representative evidence that unfairly homogenizes an individual issue.”

From New York Times Mar. 22, 2016

TV homogenizes experience because it puts it all out there.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the future of media: Personalized, not homogenized.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 16, 2025

But by the mid 20th century, the city’s housing would become homogenized into a stucco mass.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 25, 2024

People are saying that now drag is homogenized.

From Salon Jan. 18, 2024

The biggest question about the new model, Canup says, is whether material from the impact could “avoid being mixed and homogenized into the Earth’s mantle over the next four and a half billion years.”

From National Geographic Nov. 1, 2023

Don’t say huh-MODJ-uh-nus, a mispronunciation no doubt influenced by the word homogenized or the less familiar homogenous.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

"So, what we think we are seeing between the 1930s and the present is the effect of that migration basically homogenizing genetic variation."

From Science Daily Oct. 12, 2023

A separate study led by Alke Voskamp, a macroecologist at the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, identified another homogenizing force: climate-driven shifts in birds’ ranges.

From Science Magazine Jul. 21, 2022

These economic and behavioral shifts are heightening concerns about the viability of independent restaurants in big cities, where they double as bulwarks against the homogenizing effect of corporate chains.

From Seattle Times Jul. 20, 2022

Film by film, he helped pry open a zone for African American filmmakers whose stories and perspectives cut against the homogenizing grain of Hollywood formula.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2019

It had a unifying character and exercised a homogenizing function within each viable political unit.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai




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