How to Use heterogenous in a Sentence

heterogenous

adjective
  • Teens who self-injure and/or think about suicide are a heterogenous group – people are unique, after all.
    — Kevin King, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Overall, the wines are far too heterogenous to call 2023 a great vintage, though some are pure magic.
    — Elin McCoy, Fortune Europe, 11 May 2024
  • Democrats tend to live clustered in cities, while Republicans sprawl across more heterogenous districts.
    — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Those two countries are extremely homogenous, and Maryland is a very heterogenous state.
    — Susan McComas, Baltimore Sun, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Soils here are very heterogenous with thick loess soils in the eastern portion and sandstone in the western region abutting the Haardt Mountains.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Aging is a heterogenous, unpredictable process mitigated by old-fashioned advantages in life and luck.
    — Anna Chodos, STAT, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The country's cooking is heterogenous, but there are filaments that connect the different regions' ways of feeding themselves.
    — Scott Hocker, theweek, 3 Sep. 2024
  • This heterogenous base of social discontent has become the new engine of political change within the region, putting forward a new set of leaders.
    — Christopher Sabatini, Foreign Affairs, 31 Aug. 2022
  • This is important for Support as the team hires a heterogenous workforce with non-traditional skillsets and competence areas.
    — Caterina Bulgarella, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • In fact, certain elements of the nation’s heterogenous business community were deeply unhappy about their new tax burdens.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The framework can integrate, run, and scale heterogenous pipelines that use data from multiple sources and require different treatments.
    — Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
  • However, the transition will be difficult for business, which will have to learn to navigate a heterogenous protocol landscape.
    — Vinit Patel, Fortune, 1 July 2022
  • The picture that is emerging is one of a heterogenous condition that is different in every person because the genetic factors involved differ in every person.
    — Pamela Feliciano, STAT, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Radicals need moderates to wield power in a giant heterogenous country with sclerotic institutions and deep wells of reaction.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Star Tribune, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The problem with ‘wait-and-see’ care Decades of research show that asthma, while characterized by airway inflammation and spasming, is a heterogenous syndrome.
    — Arjun Mohan, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Gada notes that in a heterogenous market like India, all other media, including TV and print, is segmented by language.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But Wright, who aspires to attend Stanford and study computer science, laments that the decision may make elite colleges - including the school of his dreams - much less heterogenous.
    — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
  • The community proceeds untroubled by matters of diversity and its members may even condescend to racists elsewhere who live in more heterogenous surroundings.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • Agnostic autonomy One issue that map makers like Civil Maps and Here are both grappling with is how to create platforms for a heterogenous mix of cars.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
  • For her take on the Russian olivier salad ($33), the elements, usually united into a heterogenous mass by mayonnaise, were arranged separately on the plate.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2022
  • While the two then heterogenous parties had long proved capable of cooperation on other issues, here productive negotiation and collaboration would have to be induced somehow.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Tensions also tend to rise as countries grow ever more heterogenous, whether through influxes of migrant workers seeking economic opportunity or record numbers of refugees fleeing conflict and persecution.
    — Carla Koppell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2021
  • IgA levels were not sustained long-term in mice that received two intranasal vaccinations, suggesting that a heterogenous injection plus nasal booster strategy is most effective in promoting mucosal immunity.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Neither of them provides the single-pane-of-glass visibility, predictive and automation capabilities that modern heterogenous data infrastructures require and today’s data teams need.
    — Rohit Choudhary, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
  • For the century after the Civil War, both the Republican and Democratic parties were ideologically heterogenous.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Counterinsurgencies are more difficult in ethnically heterogenous societies.
    — Adam Wunische, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019
  • This policy orchestration approach would deliver the level of integration required to connect heterogenous (often incompatible) systems and establish a consistent control plane for identity management.
    — Eric Olden, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Intel’s Optane memory was a big factor in the development of the CXL interface for memory that allow heterogenous memory with various performance and endurance characteristics to be part of a common memory pool.
    — Tom Coughlin, Forbes, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Empowering ourselves means incorporating the reality of intersectional identities -- among increasingly heterogenous workplaces -- into the core human relations and culture-building functions of any organization.
    — Priya Singh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2021

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