How to Use heterogeneity in a Sentence

heterogeneity

noun

• The great difficulty is the fact that the heterogeneity of the symptoms is quite vast.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2022
• On similar wavelengths, these tracks give the album a sense of cohesion, at the cost of heterogeneity.
  — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 8 Aug. 2022
• Much has been learned about the genetic underpinnings of autism and the extent of its heterogeneity.
  — Pamela Feliciano, STAT, 22 Aug. 2022
• However, the authors cautioned that there was significant heterogeneity across the studies, in terms of both variables like the dosages used and the size of the results.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 8 Nov. 2019
• Insights to heterogeneity of crystal mush by S. Storm and others.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2010
• But as this spatial heterogeneity is being lost and as everything is becoming more uniform, there are more and more forests with a lot of biomass.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2022
• Those kinds of same-party contests have a lack of heterogeneity, the kind that some believe alienates voters who don't see anyone with their values on the ballot.
  — John Myers, latimes.com, 27 May 2018
• This uneven risk of infection—or heterogeneity—creates hot and cool spots of viral spread.
  — Nsikan Akpan, National Geographic, 2 Oct. 2020
• One source of the Ruby men’s murderous hatred of the women is their racial heterogeneity—their utter lack of racial purity.
  — Nell Irvin Painter, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
• The rotifers may be subject to this dynamic, as well as spatial heterogeneity.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2010
• If these pictures appear to have little in common beyond Dillon’s predilection for them, their heterogeneity is in part his point.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• Research papers estimate the prevalence is anywhere from 0.5 to 6 percent thanks to the wide variation in how it's defined and the heterogeneity in study designs.
  — Christy Brissette, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
• Built on a hilly plateau above two river valleys, and offering easy access to the sea, the walled city was known for its heterogeneity and cross-cultural fertilization.
  — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
• The heterogeneity of the US population in terms of wants, needs, and desires means that the loss of choice that inevitably comes from using a super app will be rejected by a large number of Americans.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Other usages zero in on an element of heterogeneity that may or may not be monstrous.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 6 Jan. 2017
• The quilt is included in the Met show—the first of a two-part, year-long exploration of American design—ostensibly as a nod to the heterogeneity of American fashion.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2021
• One of the first considerations is the heterogeneity of file sizes, and from a privacy perspective, what the minimum cluster size should be.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• This heterogeneity is similar to that seen in human and animal brains.
  — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Our older politicians may have a more diverse profile of health conditions than their younger colleagues because of the heterogeneity of aging.
  — Anna Chodos, STAT, 4 Oct. 2023
• In China, even among the Han majority there’s a very high degree of linguistic heterogeneity.
  — Nikita Lalwani, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• At the very least, the term disorder suggests a common causal structure, which goes against all our current knowledge on causal heterogeneity in psychiatry.
  — Sarah Durston, Scientific American, 8 Mar. 2021
• We are supposed to be against the imposition of values set by Washington and instead should embrace our heterogeneity as a people.
  — AJC.com, 23 Sep. 2016
• The reason is simple: The heterogeneity of a group’s members is unrelated to its cohesiveness.
  — Alexander B. Downes, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2017
• Multiculturalism and racial ambiguity as a show of heterogeneity are at the center of the current roster of young adult shows.
  — refinery29.com, 3 July 2018
• No longer could phenotypic heterogeneity be shrugged off as a quirk of the bacterial response to antibiotics.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Sep. 2019
• The faces and cultures that get portrayed on screen and recognized by awarding institutions are not reflective of the vibrant heterogeneity of America.
  — refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The first evidence of heterogeneity is dramatic variation in plaque size, the dimensions of the clear area of dead cells surrounding infection of a single virus particle.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• At its core, Renaissance is about unity in singularity, heterogeneity—being one of one and being one.
  — Bolu Babalola, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2022
• The letters are an unsubtle reminder that liability looms for any firm that fails to act in ways approved by the SEC, regardless of the climate uncertainties and the very large heterogeneity across firms and industries.
  — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 29 Oct. 2021
• But an unavoidable lesson of the last few years, from both inside and outside the U.S., is that cultural heterogeneity and egalitarianism often cut against each other.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2017

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