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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

"We tried to homogenize the point density equally year by year to make comparative metrics," Choi said.

From Science Daily Feb. 6, 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

There is no real ability to homogenize a plate of food in a restaurant.’”

From The Verge Apr. 1, 2019

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

Led by Busby’s machine-gun mandolin riffs and hair-raising tenor, the band had a hard-edged bluegrass-style sound that was a far cry from the homogenized, syrupy country-and-western slop heard around town.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

Somehow, somewhere when they homogenized the Derby, they pulled some of the fun out of it.

From Salon May 4, 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

To measure the compounds in the fish, the fish flesh is homogenized with water and blown over by nitrogen so that the compounds evaporate.

From Science Daily Oct. 19, 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

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

This is the equalizing, homogenizing influence of pop culture at work — an influence that some queer people understandably mistrust.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 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

Subsequent treatment is preferably preceded by a breaking-up of the larger fat-globules by the projection of a jet of the milk under high pressures against a steel or agate plate, a process known as homogenizing.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various




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