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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

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

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 Mihai Nadin

“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

Then there are the theater industry giants in big cities and suburban malls, which have automated, insulated and homogenized the moviegoing experience for most Americans.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 16, 2025

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

Covering not just movies and television but also theater and cabaret, Reed, a Southerner who seemed as much a part of Manhattan as the skyline, lorded over the arts with a homogenizing mainstream peremptoriness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

"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

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

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin


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