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heterogeneous

[het-er-uh-jee-nee-uhs, -jeen-yuhs] / ˌhɛt ər əˈdʒi ni əs, -ˈdʒin yəs /


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By contrast, the wealthy are strikingly politically heterogeneous.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

“We’re imagining a heterogeneous accelerating framework that connects quantum and classical compute,” Gambetta explained during a tour of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in October.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Different leaders, organizations and local movements press for change, but their efforts are sporadic and heterogeneous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The credit card market is heterogeneous, segmented by income and more importantly by credit score.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026

The software industry did the first by creating and popularizing a protocol known as SMTP—simple mail transfer protocol—which enabled the exchange of e-mail messages between heterogeneous computer systems.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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