- past participle of centralize.
- past tense form of centralize.
centralized
Example Sentences
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Under the VAR system, officials sitting before a bank of monitors in a centralized control room review match footage in real time and advise the on-field referee of potential errors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Xi has centralized decision-making, shunning foreign counsel for five-year plans, and empowered the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Their giving patterns remained more centralized, with money flowing repeatedly through a smaller set of members.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
A long-standing idea in neuroscience holds that the brain acts as a centralized controller that decides which actions an animal will perform.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
Throughout human history, centralized states with metal weapons and armies supported by dense agricultural populations have swept away sparser populations of stone-tool-using hunter-gatherers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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