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  • Even at the conference in Princeton, which was a highly homogenous group of people of similar age, education, and income — who were all, with a few exceptions, in the same profession — the range was enormous.  (source)
    homogenous = consisting of elements that are all of the same or similar kind
  • The men are not homogeneous, as I first thought.†  (source)
  • When I answered, "I don't," they looked at me uncomfortably, as though they had just stumbled upon something unspeakably subversive going on in well-ordered, homogeneous, conformist Boca Raton.†  (source)
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  • Homogeneous grouping may be the prime suspect.†  (source)
  • Well, because Iceland has this incredibly homogenous population, most of the residents have roots many centuries back on the island.†  (source)
  • The thought of the simulation being privatized and homogenized by IOI horrified us in a way that those born before its introduction found difficult to understand.†  (source)
    homogenized = blended so it will not separate
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • A large rambling wood and stucco house of the nondescript variety erected, I should imagine, sometime before or just after the First World War, it would have faded into the homely homogeneity of other large nondescript dwellings that bordered on Prospect Park had it not been for its striking—its overwhelming—pinkness.†  (source)
  • And then on another occasion around that time, I remember his instructing me to cease giving donations to a particular local charity which regularly came to the door on the grounds that the management committee was 'more or less homogeneously Jewish'.†  (source)
  • Unlike other forms of insurance—especially whole life insurance, which is a far more complicated financial instrument—term life policies are fairly homogeneous: any given thirty-year, guaranteed policy for $1 million is essentially identical to the next.†  (source)
  • Because of this and because of the steady flow of NFL coaches into college football—college football became more homogenous, and less distinguishable from the game played in the NFL.†  (source)
  • When Langdon taught his students about archetypal hybrids, he used the example of fairy tales, which were recounted across generations and exaggerated over time, borrowing so heavily from one another that they evolved into homogenized morality tales with the same iconic elements—virginal damsels, handsome princes, impenetrable fortresses, and powerful wizards.†  (source)
  • Instead of rambling, this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the country-side — East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.†  (source)
  • I found them a merry sight, the kind of homogeneous presence that makes people smile at airports.†  (source)
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