heterogenous
adjective
het·er·og·e·nous
ˌhe-tə-ˈrä-jə-nəs 
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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.
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Carla Koppell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2021
However, Matthews and others found that the lava erupted near Grindavík is surprisingly heterogenous in composition, suggesting that instead of a big vat, it too was stored as discrete, isolated batches that might be mixed and tapped at different times during an eruption.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
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 country's cooking is heterogenous, but there are filaments that connect the different regions' ways of feeding themselves.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 3 Sep. 2024
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Carla Koppell, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2021
However, Matthews and others found that the lava erupted near Grindavík is surprisingly heterogenous in composition, suggesting that instead of a big vat, it too was stored as discrete, isolated batches that might be mixed and tapped at different times during an eruption.
—Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
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 country's cooking is heterogenous, but there are filaments that connect the different regions' ways of feeding themselves.
—Scott Hocker, theweek, 3 Sep. 2024
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heterogenous
adjective
het·er·og·e·nous
ˌhet-ə-ˈräj-ə-nəs
1
: originating in an outside source
especially
: derived from another species
heterogenous bone grafts
2
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