- past participle of decentralize.
- past tense form of decentralize.
decentralized
Example Sentences
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“The holy grail of prediction markets, they shed light on some of the most consequential, decentralized and human processes in the world, where good data is crucial and hard to find.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
That committee’s report also said Harvard was highly decentralized compared with its peers, operating an “Every Tub on its Own Bottom” system where each subsidiary prepares its own budgets and raises its own funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Thinking Machines’s push into the decentralized ecosystem of open-weights AI models comes amid a broader industry backlash against the “walled garden” approach of frontier labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
