How to Use homogenize in a Sentence

homogenize

verb
  • The new curriculum is an attempt to homogenize education throughout the county.
  • The milk is pasteurized and homogenized five days a week.
    Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Some thought streaming would homogenize the music people hear around the globe.
    Richard Smirke, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2019
  • And this basically puts it back to a point where, like most of these issues when one side of the aisle wants to homogenize it federally, is not the right way to do it.
    Kaitlin Lange, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Now the lords of baseball have homogenized the sport with interleague games every day, removing the uniqueness of the Series.
    Hal Block, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • So much of pop music has become homogenized, which is why her genre-bending effort shines through.
    Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Even as these two worlds move further apart, the American debate over Ukraine tends to homogenize Ukrainians.
    Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Keeping the mixture homogenized ensures that this queso fundido can stand the test of time.
    Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The county’s entry into World War II killed nearly 40 percent of the beer industry and homogenizing tastes did the rest.
    Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
  • Further spoiling the legislative efforts is that the dairy industry isn't homogenized in its support for the bill.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Large volumes of magma homogenize the signal, and smaller volumes show us more extremes.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • What if the grapes were fermented in small lots, so that each section of the vineyard could be treated individually rather than homogenized in huge vats?
    Eric Asimov, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2019
  • This homogenizes the liquid, dispersing the fat and stabilizing the tasty globules with milk protein.
    Popular Mechanics, 4 Aug. 2017
  • In their rush to exploit its popularity, big booze producers homogenized the product and started using stuff like sugarcane to round out recipes when the price of blue agave rose.
    John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2018
  • States have dictated what teachers should teach grade by grade, homogenizing schooling in hopes of improving it.
    Matthew Ladner, National Review, 8 Nov. 2019
  • To admit to that kind of curatorial (and partly homogenizing) role is more than the contemporary Ivy League can bring itself to do.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 3 Oct. 2019
  • This is storytelling as an act of resistance against colonialism’s effort to homogenize and erase.
    Ron Charles, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Modern tastes have been homogenized by social media, Koplovitz said, and part of her job is to help clients recover their own tastes among digital influences.
    Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
  • But her constant focus on gender, which begins as a rallying cry, ends up having a kind of homogenizing effect.
    Jillian Steinhauer, The New Republic, 21 Aug. 2023
  • To me, that’s gold, especially in a world where everything’s getting homogenized.
    Linda Dyett, New York Times, 5 July 2018
  • The host cities are sanitized, homogenized by the experience.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 June 2018
  • Cultured buttermilk is from milk that has been pasteurized and homogenized.
    Heloise, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2018
  • Pro locker rooms are often homogenizing spaces, repressive of the quirky types.
    Jack Dickey, SI.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Presumably selection would operate outside of Africa and homogenize non-Africans through a series of sweeps.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2010
  • Would homogenizing the whole experience strip surfing of its soul?
    Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 17 May 2018
  • Yet its persistence and volatility — from as low as 1.8 percent to as high as 13 percent — indicate how a market that’s captured Wall Street’s attention can still be slow to homogenize.
    Fortune, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Given enough time and gene flow no doubt adaptations would homogenize and converge upon a perfect optimum, but given enough time the universe will devolve into heat death.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2010
  • Once Hollywood signed the overseas talent, there were two approaches: one was to homogenize the imports and turn them into Hollywood’s version of Americana.
    Tim Gray, Variety, 21 Jan. 2022
  • But guidelines to homogenize healthcare have become a steamroller, presuming that experts always know which treatments are best and that they should be applied uniformly.
    Sandeep Jauhar, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
  • American federal actors enjoy far greater fiscal resources than their EU counterparts and use them to fund federal deposit insurance that substantially homogenizes the conditions for banking across the United States.
    Matthias Matthijs, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022

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