industrialize
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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
In the same 50 years, settlers had continued their westward push with the backing of the federal government, displacing Native Americans, and urban centers had begun to industrialize, leading to labor unrest among workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 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
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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
In industrialized countries, however, they have become far less common because of improved hygiene and modern medicine.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 10, 2026
The researchers pointed to the need for lower sodium levels in industrialized and ultra-processed foods, which are major contributors to excessive salt intake.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Instead, reeling from oil and gas price aftershocks from Iran, the industrialized world is now running toward renewable energy.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
Countries that industrialized, prospered; those that failed to industrialize, floundered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
“If the Total Fertility Rate in industrialized countries had remained at or below 2.1—” Luke saw that reading this book would be like puzzling out the letters Dad got from the Government.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Returning to the U.S. empty, the containers stopped in industrializing Japan to collect inexpensive consumer goods that American shoppers snapped up.
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 Russell, Bertrand
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Content Summary 5.3: The First Industrial Revolution
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