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centralize

[sen-truh-lahyz] / ˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz /


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Find insight on Syensqo’s strategic review, Indonesia’s plans to centralize exports and more in the latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 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

It’s unclear whether Paramount would sell the historic Melrose Avenue lot or simply centralize the sprawling operations onto the Warner Bros. and Paramount lots in Burbank and Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 3, 2026

Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

An app that centralizes France’s vaccine and other medical appointments, Doctolib, announced Tuesday that 1.3 million people signed up for injections after Macron gave a televised address Monday night urging more vaccination.

From Seattle Times Jul. 13, 2021

As he wakes it centralizes, until at last comes the moment when he says, "Me arm aches cruel," and points to it.

From A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold

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

Despite providing millions of Americans with health insurance coverage for the first time, these programs had few centralized mechanisms for the kind of federal oversight that could prevent and catch fraud and abuse.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

These people, whose origins lay in the salaried middle class and the upper grades of the working class, had been shaped and brought together by the barren world of monopoly industry and centralized government.

From "1984" by George Orwell

“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 said in his essay.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 2026

Give-and-take on FDR’s centralizing proposals culminated with the Banking Act of 1935, which created the modern structure of the Fed.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 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

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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