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heterogeneous

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


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“The needs across the system are so heterogeneous that it was inherently complicated to make a design,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

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

Shortly after her isolation begins, she spies the “Colony” of the title, an intriguingly heterogeneous group of seven, eating and bathing and singing together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2025

In fact, each interpretation was true, in the sense that adherents of the different positions—and dozens more—existed in that churning and heterogeneous group known, with deceptive simplicity, as black America.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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