How to Use heterogenous in a Sentence

heterogenous

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mukhopadhyay had shown that Earth’s mantle is heterogenous, with at least two separate sources, and that those sources are at least 4.5 billion years old.
    Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Democrats tend to live clustered in cities, while Republicans sprawl across more heterogenous districts.
    The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • Throughout the album, Mr. Phillips can be heard rendering these varied cultural signals into a heterogenous work of art — but one that has a coherence the world often lacks.
    Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • Women of color are a heterogenous group that includes immigrants, U.S.-born people, and people of different races and countries of origin.
    Priya Iyer, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • American Muslims are a very heterogenous group with diverse backgrounds as racial minorities and forced and voluntary migrants.
    Amelia Noor-Oshiro, Quartz, 11 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • The choir’s heterogenous concerts don’t arrive seamlessly.
    David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 31 May 2018
  • 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
  • Aging is a heterogenous, unpredictable process mitigated by old-fashioned advantages in life and luck.
    Anna Chodos, STAT, 4 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Bose suggests one explanation for the contradictory results: Each piece samples a different bit of a heterogenous rock, which may have experienced different levels of alteration by water and heat.
    Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 13 Aug. 2020
  • For the century after the Civil War, both the Republican and Democratic parties were ideologically heterogenous.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Counterinsurgencies are more difficult in ethnically heterogenous societies.
    Adam Wunische, The New Republic, 27 Sep. 2019

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