How to Use homogenize in a Sentence

homogenize

verb
  • The new curriculum is an attempt to homogenize education throughout the county.
  • Some thought streaming would homogenize the music people hear around the globe.
    — Richard Smirke, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2019
  • So much of pop music has become homogenized, which is why her genre-bending effort shines through.
    — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Keeping the mixture homogenized ensures that this queso fundido can stand the test of time.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Large volumes of magma homogenize the signal, and smaller volumes show us more extremes.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Cultured buttermilk is from milk that has been pasteurized and homogenized.
    — Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • Whole milk homogenized in house never blankets coffee’s flavor.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2020
  • States have dictated what teachers should teach grade by grade, homogenizing schooling in hopes of improving it.
    — Matthew Ladner, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
  • And this basically puts it back to a point where, like most of these issues when one side of the aisle wants to homogenize it federally, is not the right way to do it.
    — Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2022
  • This is storytelling as an act of resistance against colonialism’s effort to homogenize and erase.
    — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Would homogenizing the whole experience strip surfing of its soul?
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 17 May 2018
  • Pro locker rooms are often homogenizing spaces, repressive of the quirky types.
    — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Further spoiling the legislative efforts is that the dairy industry isn't homogenized in its support for the bill.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • But her constant focus on gender, which begins as a rallying cry, ends up having a kind of homogenizing effect.
    — Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • To me, that’s gold, especially in a world where everything’s getting homogenized.
    — Linda Dyett, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • This homogenizes the liquid, dispersing the fat and stabilizing the tasty globules with milk protein.
    — Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2017
  • What if the grapes were fermented in small lots, so that each section of the vineyard could be treated individually rather than homogenized in huge vats?
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Now the lords of baseball have homogenized the sport with interleague games every day, removing the uniqueness of the Series.
    — Hal Block, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The host cities are sanitized, homogenized by the experience.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • Even as these two worlds move further apart, the American debate over Ukraine tends to homogenize Ukrainians.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Users spend hours daily on feeds, yet algorithms homogenize content, making true cultural demand opaque.
    — Josipa Majic Predin, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • Character sketches can sometimes end up homogenizing the host into the ensemble, but that doesn’t happen here.
    — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Liebel gives credit to Virgin for preventing their high-concept approach from being homogenized.
    — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 16 June 2014
  • Our city was created over centuries, every district has a different atmosphere, and here it is being homogenized.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Given enough time and gene flow no doubt adaptations would homogenize and converge upon a perfect optimum, but given enough time the universe will devolve into heat death.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2010
  • Modern tastes have been homogenized by social media, Koplovitz said, and part of her job is to help clients recover their own tastes among digital influences.
    — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • In their rush to exploit its popularity, big booze producers homogenized the product and started using stuff like sugarcane to round out recipes when the price of blue agave rose.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Those imposters likely bred with local varieties of the salamander, hybridizing and homogenizing the gene pool.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 21 May 2018
  • But guidelines to homogenize healthcare have become a steamroller, presuming that experts always know which treatments are best and that they should be applied uniformly.
    — Sandeep Jauhar, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Presumably selection would operate outside of Africa and homogenize non-Africans through a series of sweeps.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010

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