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
  • 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
  • Is there anything wrong with this push toward functional homogenization?
    Sam Evans-Brown, Slate Magazine, 26 Oct. 2017
  • And that, perhaps, is a danger of this necessary shift from local, in-person performance to online global broadcast in the pandemic moment: a homogenization of culture that reinforces power structures that might have seemed to be on the wane.
    Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2020
  • At this point this genetic island would then start to shift toward homogenization of allele frequencies across these populations because of continuous gene flow.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2012
  • After a terrible year for independent artists and companies, this monopolization of the tech sector, and the concomitant homogenization of culture, is going to gather steam.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2020

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