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
They wished, in particular, to decentralize the administration and restore to the landed proprietors the administration and levying of taxes, which they wished to reduce to a tax on land only.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
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
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
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
Nasdaq-backed Payward will launch tokenized versions of more than 200 of the most-traded U.K. and European stocks, the latest in a stream of crypto companies looking to bridge traditional and decentralized finance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Perpetual contracts tied to a number of cryptocurrencies and real-world assets are currently traded outside the U.S. on centralized exchanges like Binance, as well as on decentralized platforms like Hyperliquid.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
City Controller Kenneth Mejia said, because of its decentralized approach to homelessness, budget structure, staffing shortages and long approval delays for affordable housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
That’s using the new media, or at least the decentralized YouTube platform, to push your narrative.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 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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Yet, the festival’s programmers seem to be decentralizing their attention-hogging neighbors to the south.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 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
One solution may be decentralizing them by creating a network of small facilities that are harder to hit than large plants.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 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 Sam Williams
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