How to Use heterogeneous in a Sentence

heterogeneous

adjective
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  • But in a nation as heterogeneous as the U.S., the very idea of common knowledge is a false one.
    — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The first thing is to say that Latin America is a very, very big, heterogeneous area.
    — CBS News, 22 June 2022
  • So the heterogeneous norms of the society have changed and have been reversed.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2022
  • How does the soap opera fit in conjunction with other heterogeneous tellings of the story?
    — Sanaya Chandar, Quartz India, 8 Nov. 2019
  • In the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular.
    — Oren Kessler, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2016
  • Neutrality may be one of the few positions on which this heterogeneous group of states can agree.
    — Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The class of 2023 pays homage to rock ‘n’ roll’s roots by including artists across racial and genre lines, from hip-hop (a descendant of the blues) to country, to reflect the music’s diverse, heterogeneous origins.
    — Neil Shah, wsj.com, 3 May 2023
  • Such models are better able to depict heterogeneous countries, such as the United States, or all of Europe.
    — Martin Enserink, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Mustafa moved to Scottsdale a decade ago and joined the commission to create a more integrated, heterogeneous city.
    — Zahra Ahmad, azcentral, 13 July 2018
  • If the Democrats are heterogeneous, they are held together by a few core beliefs, one of which is a faith in government policies to improve people’s lives.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Tager-Flusberg, who is nonautistic, and others say one source of the friction is the use of a single set of terms for an extremely heterogeneous condition.
    — Byrachel Zamzow, science.org, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Recently my brother commented to me that our high school had not been at all heterogeneous.
    — WSJ, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Whichever coalition emerges from the election is likely to be heterogeneous.
    — The Economist, 1 Mar. 2018
  • There isn’t a single adoptee movement—the community is too heterogeneous for that.
    — Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The former is all but impossible in a large, heterogeneous constituency, but the latter is not.
    — Steve Israel, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Movies are dying from a lack of the heterogeneous, and Mills’s citations from Jamie’s readings are an admirable attempt at a corrective.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The study’s authors acknowledged that the declines in species might in part reflect changes in GBIF’s collection of data over time or the heterogeneous character of its datasets.
    — Patrick Barkham, Wired, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Finding the right treatment can be challenging for this rare and heterogeneous disease.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
  • The result is that the celebration of the national anniversary has of late years been of a very heterogeneous description.
    — Chicago Tribune Staff, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • Poking around the data indicates that this group is very heterogeneous.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Aug. 2011
  • This heterogeneous, even eccentric programme helped the Five Stars win a third of the seats in the legislature at the last general election in March 2018, more than any other party.
    — The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019
  • So why does the falling ice create such an otherworldly and heterogeneous sound?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 Feb. 2020
  • There’s a need for the full range of heterogeneous Latine identities and experiences, including those who fit stereotypes and those who break away from them.
    — Brenda Barrientos, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In both viruses, RNA virus particles emerge that are heterogeneous.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Political parties are heterogeneous, and not all of the new right-wing perspectives can be classified in this way.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Wesson warns the value here can be skewed due to heterogeneous inventory.
    — Griffin Jackson, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2018
  • Beliefs and behaviors are now increasingly heterogeneous, varying from state to state and, in some cases, town to town.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 13 Sep. 2021
  • This results in a material much more like concrete, which is a heterogeneous mixture of cement and some kind of sediment.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Norris also chastises us for our narrow and highly heterogeneous sample of 16 cases, but our selection was self-conscious.
    — Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
  • All three parties in Scholz’s ideologically heterogeneous coalition combined are currently polling at around 30%, less than the conservatives alone.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2024

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