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homogenize

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




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Stagnant communities, by contrast, tend to homogenize over time, as people conform to the views of those around them.

From Salon Mar. 26, 2025

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

This has happened before, of course — the moment when Twitter turned from good-faith salon to sinister outrage derby, or when Instagram, and its army of influencers, learned to homogenize joy and beauty.

From New York Times Feb. 1, 2024

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

From Washington Post Aug. 23, 2022

The shared brief episode of communism failed to homogenize these parts of the continent.

From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Samuel Vaknin

“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

Museum director-general Bart Ouvry said a new effort to digitize its archives commenced at the start of February, building on past work to create a homogenized data set.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 28, 2026

The loaf holds together, but it doesn’t feel homogenized.

From Salon Mar. 11, 2026

The garish look and homogenized feel of the show directly informed the way future Disney Channel hits like “Wizards of Waverly Place” and “Sonny With a Chance” would appear.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2024

After 30 days of storage, an unprocessed organic shampoo sample turned from white to yellow and separated into two layers, whereas the spun shampoo didn't change color and remained homogenized.

From Science Daily Apr. 11, 2024

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

The Mafia movie often pits these traditional values against the corrosive and homogenizing effects of American life.

From New York Times Sep. 29, 2021

In the centrifugal or heterogenizing cycles national souls are evolved; in the centripetal or homogenizing they are given freedom to affect the world.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris




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