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industrialize

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


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As decades passed, she watched it change and industrialize, the population grow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

“How to meet that demand will be solved by companies that can industrialize at scale,” Strazik said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 8, 2026

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

“It’s that they have already looked at the entire system and industrialized it in a way to go faster.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

And it came about because more than half a century ago, when it appeared that the coast was becoming too privatized and industrialized, a citizen uprising led to the protections we enjoy today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

One general theory for the origin of aids goes at, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and crative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

"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

By 1910, the grip of agriculture had loosened significantly, as manufacturing emerged as a force in the industrializing economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025

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

Experience in the developing countries continued mixed, with the newly industrializing economies generally maintaining their rapid growth, and many others struggling with debt, rampant inflation, and inadequate investment.

From The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency


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