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centralize

[sen-truh-lahyz] / ˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz /


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Indonesia accounts for nearly half of internationally traded thermal-coal supply and recently announced plans to centralize exports.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

Last year, Allen came under fire after announcing sweeping cuts at about two dozen local affiliates that included laying off meteorologists, part of a reorganization to centralize forecasts at the Weather Channel in Atlanta.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

The ice-cream maker will eventually need to condense and centralize all of the AI agents created inside the company, though it’s aiming not to disrupt employee creativity in the process, Friedlander said.

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

The move comes after Disney’s board and newly installed Chief Executive Josh D’Amaro unveiled a more streamlined management structure that sought to centralize its sprawling marketing operations.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2026

The plan was accepted at most branches, but some of the more far-flung outposts felt that the plan was an effort by Jo-hannesburg to centralize control over the regions.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

The biggest problem is that it centralizes Europeanness.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2023

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

And voters with a college education tend to be located in urban areas, which centralizes and thus diminishes their influence.

From Washington Post Oct. 11, 2021

Having one person fill both roles is generally viewed as a poor corporate governance practice because it centralizes power too much.

From Seattle Times Feb. 8, 2020

The "Word" which centralizes the activity of the Spirit, is therefore that of the Spirit itself.

From The Law and the Word by T. (Thomas) Troward

Despite providing millions of Americans with health insurance coverage for the first time, these programs had few centralized mechanisms for the kind of federal oversight that could prevent and catch fraud and abuse.

From Salon Aug. 5, 2026

Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Under the VAR system, officials sitting before a bank of monitors in a centralized control room review match footage in real time and advise the on-field referee of potential errors.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 12, 2026

With no centralized coordination, the rescue teams from the U.K.,

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 9, 2026

The theory also notes that any big, complex system for irrigation or hydraulic management requires a centralized bureaucracy to construct and maintain it.

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

And Kuper says Infantino has transformed the way the organization works by centralizing power.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

“It’s just centralizing all of the different parts of the road map that I’ve been trying to build for myself.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 13, 2026

Iranian state media acknowledged his death late Saturday; Khamenei had led the Islamic Republic since 1989, centralizing religious and political power and steering Iran into prolonged confrontation with both Israel and the United States.

From Salon Mar. 1, 2026

In centralizing their worlds, Morrison made serious explorations into the effects of personal and ancestral trauma.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2026

But in all branches of industry—and death is an industry, my young friend, make no mistake about that—one makes one’s money from operating in bulk, from buying in quantity, from centralizing one’s operations.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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