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centralize

[sen-truh-lahyz] / ˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz /


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Several of the executives are due to attend the launch of America.gov, an AI-powered government website designed to centralize services across federal agencies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Its Thai central kitchen slated to start operations in October will centralize frozen-meal production and improve utilization across the group’s regional kitchen network.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

The move comes after Disney’s board and newly installed Chief Executive Josh D’Amaro unveiled a more streamlined management structure that sought to centralize its sprawling marketing operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

Now that we have one clear policy, we can update all of our Help pages and try to centralize this a bit more.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

The plan was accepted at most branches, but some of the more far-flung outposts felt that the plan was an effort by Jo-hannesburg to centralize control over the regions.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The move effectively centralizes control over the entire department’s operations—putting the power to shape staffing, spending, and priorities for the department’s thousands of duties into the hands of a single office.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025

The biggest problem is that it centralizes Europeanness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

Fan has been working with Chinese institutions to set up more community care, rather than the current system, which centralizes care in major hospitals.

From Washington Post ● May 19, 2022

Web2 centralizes a bunch of cool stuff that was happening with Web1, but you are saying Web3 decentralizes it again.

From The Verge ● Apr. 12, 2022

For Honolulu is truly a metropolis, gay, hospitable, and restless, and this hotel centralizes the restlessness. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Nike is known to have a very centralized system of product development, so it will be interesting to watch whether Sparks’s China team is able to churn out hits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Nor will media literacy programs, stronger education about viruses, centralized hubs for medical information, “prebunking” campaigns, or community engagement programs—all good ideas from experts that still cannot meet the sheer force of our paranoia.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

If a relatively simple machine can produce behavior that looks intentional without possessing a decision-making system, could human behavior also appear to result from centralized decisions even if no such central process exists?

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

Broken TV economics have prompted the NBA to begin making plans to build a centralized streaming platform for fans to watch basketball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

Considerations of conflict resolution, decision making, economics, and space thus converge in requiring large societies to be centralized.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“You’re having a conversation about the future of young workers, and you’re not centralizing them in the conversation,” Lundrigan said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

"Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it," Zuckerberg wrote, arguing that open models are a key part of a global AI ecosystem.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

This year, the company has been centralizing its operations, including folding its marketing for entertainment, sports and experiences into a single division that reports to Asad Ayaz, its chief marketing officer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Iranian state media acknowledged his death late Saturday; Khamenei had led the Islamic Republic since 1989, centralizing religious and political power and steering Iran into prolonged confrontation with both Israel and the United States.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

But in all branches of industry—and death is an industry, my young friend, make no mistake about that—one makes one’s money from operating in bulk, from buying in quantity, from centralizing one’s operations.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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