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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

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

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

People are saying that now drag is homogenized.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 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

On television and in the movies now, and even in the pages of novels, people tend to dwell in a classless, homogenized American Never-Never Land.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

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

Yet these striking creatures, as well as vultures, ibises, and others with distinctive physical traits, are likely to be the first to go extinct, homogenizing the avian world, according to one study.

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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