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decentralize

[dee-sen-truh-lahyz] / diˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz /


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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

The USDA’s program began doling out grants to states and tribal governments in 2022, in an attempt to decentralize and diversify food supply chains after the strain of the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025

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

It is probable, therefore, that on the whole the effect of Socialism would be to decentralize rather than to centralize.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

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

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

The approach essentially decentralizes the health system, gathering and responding to data in real-time instead of waiting for a national level analysis.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021

To a purist, a blockchain must be a system, like bitcoin, that decentralizes both data and power.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2018

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 Orestes Augustus Brownson

That’s using the new media, or at least the decentralized YouTube platform, to push your narrative.

From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026

EA took shape as a decentralized movement during the heady, techno-optimistic days of the late 2000s and early 2010s -- when many believed social media and smartphones would promote empathy and democracy.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Echoing the findings of an earlier evaluation also ordered by Carter, Nardello & Co. found “a reporting environment that relies on numerous databases, self-reported information, manual data transfers, and decentralized reporting practices.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The story is that in this period Scandinavia became distinct unified Christian kingdoms from a series of disparate and decentralized pagan tribes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

As with Pythagoras, in Darwin’s model, every organism carried information to build organs and structures in miniaturized form—except in Darwin’s case, the information was decentralized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In 2010, Carretero and Jones Molina founded the production company called Experimento Lúdico in the western town of Mayagüez with the intent of decentralizing production on the island.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

Its decentralizing policies, however, were of such a character that the racial question gave promise of being settled by the utter disintegration of the Empire, and after eight months it was dismissed.

From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg



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