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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

Indonesia accounts for nearly half of internationally traded thermal-coal supply and recently announced plans to centralize exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

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

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

“It’s actually a very efficient process, in the sense that it centralizes what otherwise would be distributed, more expensive, complicated, and in many cases, therefore just wouldn’t happen at all.”

From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

For the past five years, Boeing has talked up the advances it has made with what is called “model-based engineering,” which centralizes all information about a project in a digital model.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

The new Paperwork Reduction Act centralizes, in OMB, oversight of all agencies' information requirements and strengthens OMB's authority to eliminate needless forms.

From State of the Union Address by Jimmy Carter

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

Immediate reasons for Pizarro’s success included military technology based on guns, steel weapons, and horses; infectious diseases endemic in Eurasia; European maritime technology; the centralized political organization of European states; and writing.

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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

DIS 0.49%increase; green up pointing triangle is centralizing its marketing efforts into a new enterprise marketing and brand organization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 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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