How to Use homogenization in a Sentence
homogenization
noun-
The homogenization of the arts happened slowly, then all at once, over the course of my lifetime.
— Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020 -
But consumers also play a role in the homogenization of the culture and the landscape.
— Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 5 May 2018 -
This homogenization is not only in crop types, but in ideas, leadership, and the flow of capital.
— Danielle Nierenberg, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023 -
For better or possibly worse, that’s gone the way of homogenization.
— Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023 -
As Coppoletta puts it, the result is a homogenization of the landscape.
— Ula Chrobak, Scientific American, 24 Nov. 2020 -
L.A.'s rise has both coincided with and acted as a contrast to the growing homogenization of the global art market.
— Kevin Conley, Town & Country, 5 Aug. 2014 -
The idea of sameness, of homogenization, comes with digital.
— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2022 -
However, the boom of Common Projects also led to a homogenization of upscale low-profile sneakers.
— Tyler Watamanuk, GQ, 1 Oct. 2017 -
This resulted in a decrease of genetic difference within these zones through the power of homogenization, though increased Fst in the few zones of direct contact across the zones.
— Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2012 -
Inarguably, the shed insurgency has been a counteroffensive against the homogenization of the city, breeding wildness where before there was Duane Reade.
— Curbed, 24 Oct. 2022 -
Because tearing it down contributes to the creeping homogenization of New York.
— Curbed, 18 July 2022 -
This is homogenization of the news with a heaping teaspoon of ideological slant.
— David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 3 July 2017 -
In fact, this homogenization has affected the entire city with restaurants and stores that are common in many other cities, as well as residencies that still tour through other markets for a fraction of the price.
— Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2022 -
However Davis, who still listens to every song on the Billboard Top 100 weekly, says he is concerned about the increasing homogenization of music.
— Rhonda Richford, Billboard, 8 Sep. 2017 -
Few things have been as damaging to the American wine industry as its homogenization.
— Eric Asimov, New York Times, 15 May 2017 -
The postwar world had unleashed new nation-states with license to practice an ethnic homogenization to the benefit of the majority.
— Steven J. Zipperstein, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020 -
What’s at issue here, however, is something different, and that’s the homogenization of a narrative art form.
— BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019 -
In the Amazon, deforestation and agriculture are to blame for this homogenization.
— Guest Blogger, Discover Magazine, 5 Feb. 2013 -
Her beauty is of a different breed, one that seeks not to conform, but to defy and resist homogenization and commercialization.
— Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 14 Feb. 2023 -
Creating the appellation system could be a way to fend off such homogenization.
— Marcus Crowder, SFChronicle.com, 22 Sep. 2020 -
Better novels suffer from a certain homogenization or a lack of detail.
— Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 10 June 2021 -
This homogenization of the arts is a refutation of the idea that capitalism produces true competition.
— Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020 -
Decades later, the ill effects of an overindustrialized food supply are evident in the dramatic rise in obesity and diseases linked to the homogenization of our diet.
— New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020 -
That's because its franchisees are encouraged to buck the typical chain model of homogenization.
— Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 3 Sep. 2017 -
So writes Darran Anderson, lamenting the homogenization of urban spaces for The Atlantic.
— Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2020 -
To avoid Comic-Con’s homogenization, Coulter says the event will stay intentionally small.
— Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 26 June 2012 -
Saint Russia would stand against this baleful homogenization.
— New York Times, 26 Mar. 2022 -
But here’s the deal: the homogenization of today’s surfaces—or/and, more charitably, the versatility of today’s players—means that surface specialists have died.
— Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 3 July 2019 -
But video games are hardly pernicious agents of global homogenization.
— Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016 -
Is there anything wrong with this push toward functional homogenization?
— Sam Evans-Brown, Slate Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017
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