How to Use monoculture in a Sentence

monoculture

noun
  • For the good of Hollywood and the rest of us, that monoculture needs to break down.
    Michael Cieply, Deadline, 14 July 2024
  • The street had gone from a rich ecosystem to a monoculture.
    Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Well, a lot of food is made cheaply and from monocultures of corn and wheat and soy.
    Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
  • And monoculture forests are at greater risk of disease and fire.
    Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Seaweed farms are a far cry from the rows of corn and wheat that make up monoculture farming on land.
    Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
  • But today 93% of the forest has been stripped of trees, with much of it turned over to monoculture farming.
    Time, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Still, the service is the closest thing the streaming landscape has to a monoculture these days.
    Vulture, 14 Jan. 2022
  • If there is a more waxen emblem of elite monoculture than Joe Biden, none leaps to mind.
    Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
  • It’s the cheat code for what was once our country’s defining monoculture.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The talent hasn’t gone anywhere, but the monoculture—his theme, his muse, and his one true medium—played a nasty trick on us all.
    Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The rich, layered variety of the ecosystem gives way to a bland monoculture.
    Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Video games have firmly entered the monoculture, and Sonic is here to lead the parade.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • That has led to a monoculture – where only a few voices, a few faces – are what everyone hears and sees.
    Yola Robert, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • But this monoculture is in its turn vulnerable to blights and what not.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
  • The Super Bowl Halftime Show is one of the last monoculture music events left standing.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Please know, this isn’t a paean about the end of monoculture or how streaming has made everything better—or worse.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Chrome is the project with the resources and reach to better compete with Safari, and working its way into iOS will bring the web close to a Chrome monoculture.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In this last era of the media monoculture, this strategy made the songs from Play ubiquitous.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 May 2024
  • All this excitement is taking us back to the days of monoculture, baby.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 21 July 2023
  • For a city trying to keep its economy from turning into a tech monoculture, that seems like a brain-dead move.
    Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2019
  • What all of these cultural dinosaurs are confronting, though rarely head on, is the fact that there is no monoculture anymore.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Not all coffee farms were monocultures, though, and in some regions, coffee was grown under shade trees.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The streaming wars, everything collapsing, the death of the monoculture.
    Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
  • In a monoculture, one insect or disease could wipe out the majority of your trees. 4.
    Laura Drummond, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
  • Lawns create a monoculture that sustains very few types of fauna.
    Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • Clover lawns require less maintenance A full clover lawn, or monoculture, will eliminate the need to mow.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2024
  • In her eleventh studio album, Swift grapples with the consequences of the monoculture she’s built around herself.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2024
  • And more than any other late-night host (except maybe Carson, who had the monoculture to back him up), O’Brien was the master of the parasocial relationship.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 June 2021
  • In contrast, Detroit had relied on an industrial monoculture: producing cars.
    Sandy Hornick, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2011
  • Its widespread cultivation has botanists and other scientists lamenting the dangers of such an intense monoculture to Mexico’s rich biodiversity and scrambling to find solutions.
    Chantal Martineau, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2015

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