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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

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

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2024

Usually U.S. remakes of foreign films tend to homogenize the source material.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

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

One of Thursday’s allies posits a dire scenario in which books become “a managed formulaic enterprise without risk, excitement or imagination. Readers could be fed homogenized nonsense that could also ensure social compliance.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

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

But by the mid 20th century, the city’s housing would become homogenized into a stucco mass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

The thought of the simulation being privatized and homogenized by IOI horrified us in a way that those born before its introduction found difficult to understand.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

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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