How to Use heterogeneous in a Sentence

heterogeneous

adjective
  • So the heterogeneous norms of the society have changed and have been reversed.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2022
  • How does the soap opera fit in conjunction with other heterogeneous tellings of the story?
    — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The first thing is to say that Latin America is a very, very big, heterogeneous area.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2022
  • Neutrality may be one of the few positions on which this heterogeneous group of states can agree.
    — Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Recently my brother commented to me that our high school had not been at all heterogeneous.
    — WSJ, 8 Mar. 2020
  • In the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular.
    — Oren Kessler, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2016
  • In both cases, both virus stocks were remarkably heterogeneous.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Poking around the data indicates that this group is very heterogeneous.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2011
  • Whichever coalition emerges from the election is likely to be heterogeneous.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • So why does the falling ice create such an otherworldly and heterogeneous sound?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
  • Finding the right treatment can be challenging for this rare and heterogeneous disease.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
  • There isn’t a single adoptee movement—the community is too heterogeneous for that.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Wesson warns the value here can be skewed due to heterogeneous inventory.
    — Griffin Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
  • Take the word diverse for example, which up until 5 minutes ago meant how heterogeneous a group of people is.
    — Evan Clark, WWD, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease that has many ways of progressing in patients.
    — Angelique Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Its origins were global and heterogeneous from the beginning.
    — Kyle Chayka, Harper's magazine, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The former is all but impossible in a large, heterogeneous constituency, but the latter is not.
    — Steve Israel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Political parties are heterogeneous, and not all of the new right-wing perspectives can be classified in this way.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Beliefs and behaviors are now increasingly heterogeneous, varying from state to state and, in some cases, town to town.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 13 Sep. 2021
  • This results in a material much more like concrete, which is a heterogeneous mixture of cement and some kind of sediment.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2020
  • The effect of heterogeneous images in flashing sequence dizzies—physically so, in my case.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • Mustafa moved to Scottsdale a decade ago and joined the commission to create a more integrated, heterogeneous city.
    — Zahra Ahmad, azcentral, 13 July 2018
  • In both viruses, RNA virus particles emerge that are heterogeneous.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Globalization, changes in workplace technology, and the rise of a more heterogeneous workforce put strains on unions.
    — Suresh Naidu, Eric Posner, Vox, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Moreover, the central hub must handle heterogeneous AI model types.
    — Ashish Anand, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The result is that the celebration of the national anniversary has of late years been of a very heterogeneous description.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • If the Democrats are heterogeneous, they are held together by a few core beliefs, one of which is a faith in government policies to improve people’s lives.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Such models are better able to depict heterogeneous countries, such as the United States, or all of Europe.
    — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Tager-Flusberg, who is nonautistic, and others say one source of the friction is the use of a single set of terms for an extremely heterogeneous condition.
    — Byrachel Zamzow, science.org, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Tumors are heterogeneous in their genetic makeup.
    — Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026

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