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Last year, Allen came under fire after announcing sweeping cuts at about two dozen local affiliates that included laying off meteorologists, part of a reorganization to centralize forecasts at the Weather Channel in Atlanta.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The ice-cream maker will eventually need to condense and centralize all of the AI agents created inside the company, though it’s aiming not to disrupt employee creativity in the process, Friedlander said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 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

Meta’s ad platform centralizes buying across its properties—including Instagram and Facebook—and is extremely effective, using advanced targeting and optimization to deliver better performance than other digital media outlets, with the possible exception of Google.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023

The biggest problem is that it centralizes Europeanness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

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

If you hold your mind on some chosen object, you centralize your attention, just like the lens of the camera centralizes on a certain landscape.

From The Power of Concentration by Theron Q. Dumont

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

The balance of power in open-weight models is much more centralized.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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

And Kuper says Infantino has transformed the way the organization works by centralizing power.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

“It’s just centralizing all of the different parts of the road map that I’ve been trying to build for myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

“As AI rapidly reshapes retail, we are centralizing our platforms to accelerate shared capabilities, freeing up our operating segments to be more focused on and closer to our customers and members,” said Furner.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

I was an anthropology doctoral student and human rights worker, studying the effects of Putin’s centralizing policies and of the country’s Christian nationalist media on the everyday lives of Russians.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

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