How to Use monoculture in a Sentence
monoculture
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The street had gone from a rich ecosystem to a monoculture.
—Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020
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Well, a lot of food is made cheaply and from monocultures of corn and wheat and soy.
—Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
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And monoculture forests are at greater risk of disease and fire.
—Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2021
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Seaweed farms are a far cry from the rows of corn and wheat that make up monoculture farming on land.
—Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
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But today 93% of the forest has been stripped of trees, with much of it turned over to monoculture farming.
—Time, 3 Jan. 2023
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Still, the service is the closest thing the streaming landscape has to a monoculture these days.
—Vulture, 14 Jan. 2022
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If there is a more waxen emblem of elite monoculture than Joe Biden, none leaps to mind.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
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It’s the cheat code for what was once our country’s defining monoculture.
—Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
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The talent hasn’t gone anywhere, but the monoculture—his theme, his muse, and his one true medium—played a nasty trick on us all.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
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The rich, layered variety of the ecosystem gives way to a bland monoculture.
—Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
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Video games have firmly entered the monoculture, and Sonic is here to lead the parade.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
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That has led to a monoculture – where only a few voices, a few faces – are what everyone hears and sees.
—Yola Robert, Forbes, 19 May 2022
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But this monoculture is in its turn vulnerable to blights and what not.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
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The Super Bowl Halftime Show is one of the last monoculture music events left standing.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2022
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Please know, this isn’t a paean about the end of monoculture or how streaming has made everything better—or worse.
—Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
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Chrome is the project with the resources and reach to better compete with Safari, and working its way into iOS will bring the web close to a Chrome monoculture.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
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In this last era of the media monoculture, this strategy made the songs from Play ubiquitous.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 22 May 2024
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All this excitement is taking us back to the days of monoculture, baby.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 21 July 2023
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For a city trying to keep its economy from turning into a tech monoculture, that seems like a brain-dead move.
—Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2019
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What all of these cultural dinosaurs are confronting, though rarely head on, is the fact that there is no monoculture anymore.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2021
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Not all coffee farms were monocultures, though, and in some regions, coffee was grown under shade trees.
—Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
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The streaming wars, everything collapsing, the death of the monoculture.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
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In a monoculture, one insect or disease could wipe out the majority of your trees. 4.
—Laura Drummond, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
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Lawns create a monoculture that sustains very few types of fauna.
—Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 30 July 2021
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Clover lawns require less maintenance A full clover lawn, or monoculture, will eliminate the need to mow.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2024
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In her eleventh studio album, Swift grapples with the consequences of the monoculture she’s built around herself.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2024
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And more than any other late-night host (except maybe Carson, who had the monoculture to back him up), O’Brien was the master of the parasocial relationship.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 June 2021
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Elms in the wild, buffered by other species, sometimes fared better, a reminder that nature abhors a monoculture.
—Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
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Part of what the artists in this show are undermining is the old art historical track that posits this monoculture of excellence in art.
—Dallas News, 23 June 2022
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And countries that rely heavily on their most profitable industry risk creating a monoculture that makes money in the short term but is vulnerable to the effects of environmental or market changes.
—Anthea Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
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