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centralize

[sen-truh-lahyz] / ˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz /


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Several of the executives are due to attend the launch of America.gov, an AI-powered government website designed to centralize services across federal agencies.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

MS highlights China’s central buying agency and now Indonesia’s effort to centralize commodity 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

Palantir sells software to centralize, manage and analyze large amounts of data, helping government agencies and private companies derive insights and make decisions such as supply-chain planning or where to drop munitions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 9, 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

For the past five years, Boeing has talked up the advances it has made with what is called “model-based engineering,” which centralizes all information about a project in a digital model.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

For Honolulu is truly a metropolis, gay, hospitable, and restless, and this hotel centralizes the restlessness. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

“Our combined purchasing levels will give us economies of scale by consolidating purchasing decisions into one centralized group,” the executives said in their letter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2026

Cloudflare operates a globally distributed network instead of centralized data centers, meaning that the company can inspect web traffic and block threats closer to where users are.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Ether and other assets like bitcoin can’t be frozen, so the transaction essentially moved the money beyond the outer limits of any centralized platform’s control.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

When asked whether West Virginia’s centralized approach to data-center development made more sense than the way most states are doing it, Van Nieuwerburgh called it “interesting.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

Meanwhile the much stronger and more centralized Zapotec empire collapsed completely in about 800 a.d.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

“You’re having a conversation about the future of young workers, and you’re not centralizing them in the conversation,” Lundrigan said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

"Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it," Zuckerberg said in his essay.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 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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