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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

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 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

Now that we have one clear policy, we can update all of our Help pages and try to centralize this a bit more.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Meta’s ad platform centralizes buying across its properties—including Instagram and Facebook—and is extremely effective, using advanced targeting and optimization to deliver better performance than other digital media outlets, with the possible exception of Google.

From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023

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

The new Paperwork Reduction Act centralizes, in OMB, oversight of all agencies' information requirements and strengthens OMB's authority to eliminate needless forms.

From State of the Union Address by Jimmy Carter

A centralized customer-service team fields customer calls and complaints, allowing shop workers to focus on fixing cars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Nor will media literacy programs, stronger education about viruses, centralized hubs for medical information, “prebunking” campaigns, or community engagement programs—all good ideas from experts that still cannot meet the sheer force of our paranoia.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

Over the last few months, I’ve heard CEOs discuss creating a more centralized data system so that AI agents can access the most up-to-date information in one spot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

If a relatively simple machine can produce behavior that looks intentional without possessing a decision-making system, could human behavior also appear to result from centralized decisions even if no such central process exists?

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

I was an anthropology doctoral student and human rights worker, studying the effects of Putin’s centralizing policies and of the country’s Christian nationalist media on the everyday lives of Russians.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025

Adopting a blended-data approach, using private and public sources, and potentially centralizing statistical agencies could improve data quality and timeliness.

From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025

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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