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industrialize

[in-duhs-tree-uh-lahyz] / ɪnˈdʌs tri əˌlaɪz /
VERB
mechanize
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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Now, Beijing is trying to industrialize something stranger: humanoid robots that can assemble parts, inspect products, move boxes and eventually take on some of the repetitive work still done by humans.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

“I’m not going to industrialize my world around a bunch of vibe code,” Walmsley said.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 7, 2026

He expects to be able to commercialize them within one to two years and industrialize the process in another two to three years.

From Barron's Dec. 16, 2025

In South Korea, the country’s sprawling family-run conglomerates turbocharged the "Miracle on the Han River" by marshaling capital, technology and labor to industrialize the country at breakneck speed.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2024

In addition to the collectivization of farms, the Five-Year Plans also aimed to industrialize the USSR.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

But, as D’Souza rather proudly observes, the adjudication process is stripped of the inconvenience of courts: “The Gawker litigation took ten years and millions of dollars. Objection industrializes this process.”

From Salon Apr. 23, 2026

“This trend is likely to continue as the Global South industrializes further and consumers have greater disposable income to spend on comfort.”

From Seattle Times Sep. 11, 2023

“President Magufuli is very committed to ensure that the country industrializes, but you cannot industrialize unless you have access to electricity,” Adesina told journalists on Saturday after his talks with the president.

From Reuters Apr. 28, 2018

“This is proof that when such a big country industrializes, its effect will spread everywhere.”

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2013

By 2001 China had industrialized the same trade, and the machine had two engines.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

In industrialized countries, however, they have become far less common because of improved hygiene and modern medicine.

From Science Daily Jul. 10, 2026

As his raw dairy grew, McAfee portrayed himself as an underdog waging a war against industrialized food.

From Salon Jun. 22, 2026

Disgruntled by rising living costs and disillusioned by unfulfilled economic and social promises, the Swiss are at the vanguard of industrialized countries questioning the benefits of immigration, even the high-skilled workers many vie to attract.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

It was a remarkable achievement that Japan, unlike so many other non-European countries, preserved its political independence and culture while emerging from isolation and creating an industrialized society in the late 19th century.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

Factories in the industrializing North churned out munitions in volumes the agrarian South couldn’t touch.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 29, 2026

"We're industrializing an easier way of forming sheet metal based on origami," says chief executive and co-founder, Jonas Nyvang.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

Like West Africa, El Salvador is a past source country for the production of rubber, essential to an industrializing Europe’s historic colonizing abroad.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2024

But industrializing economies, particularly in Asian countries with inexpensive access to domestic coal reserves, have set longer horizons for their transitions.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2024

This is a point to which, along with other general questions connected with the industrializing of China, I shall return in my last chapter.

From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell




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