homogenize
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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 is storytelling as an act of resistance against colonialism’s effort to homogenize and erase.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022
“When you homogenize a city, you destroy its feeling of urbanity,” Ms. Schulman said, referring to the banks and drugstores and chains retailers steadily wallpapering over the city’s indispensable quiddities.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020
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
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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
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
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
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
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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
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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