decentralize
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Even the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ command and control over its components is uncertain, due in part to Iran’s longstanding defensive strategy to decentralize authority, which it executed at the war’s outset.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
I believe that was the reason: an attempt to decentralize the media and kind of break it down.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
But Valderrama Blanco says Gálvez Ruiz will decentralize science policy and give more authority over science funding to Mexico’s state governments, an approach discouraged by the current law.
From Science Magazine ● May 2, 2024
Rendon ascended to speaker in 2016 on the promise that he would decentralize his control.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2023
In recent years Albania has implemented limited economic reforms to stimulate its lagging economy, provide incentives, and decentralize decisionmaking.
From The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
The draft is expected to be the first sporting event to be held at The Sphere and a showcase opportunity for the league before the draft decentralizes starting in 2025.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
"Willow" decentralizes the typical white male hero in its power fantasy, making the most important person in the universe a baby girl and the second most a little person.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2022
“The quota system decentralizes and simplifies execution but incentivizes local authorities to prioritize output at any cost. This can create abuses.”
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 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
Now, this division of power, which decentralizes the government without creating mutually hostile forces, can hardly be introduced into any European state.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus
The word “DeFiant” was a coy wink to this idea of decentralized currency, known as DeFi, the ostensible rationale for the new Trump–Witkoff platform.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The play, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize this year, entices on the page despite seeming overstuffed and curiously decentralized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
After Operation Epic Fury, the IRGC’s goal was to create a decentralized structure that could survive Israeli attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Menefee wrote on his campaign site that blockchain technology, the decentralized system used to record and verify crypto transactions, offers the potential to “increase trust, transparency and efficiency” with rules to protect consumers.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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The president reiterated his commitment to decentralizing the economy and granting greater autonomy to state-owned enterprises, which account for roughly 80 percent of economic activity.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
In “Humanocracy,” Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini describe how decentralizing individual responsibility helps businesses thrive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
COVID-19 transformed the sheltering and rescue world in many ways, primarily by decentralizing it.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024
At the time, Skid Row housing and service providers were looking outward, building housing in the Valley, Westlake, Hollywood and South L.A. in hopes of decentralizing their work on Skid Row.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
Linux, on the other hand, was more like "a great babbling bazaar," a software program developed through the loose decentralizing dynamics of the Internet.
From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Williams, Sam
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