globalize
verb
glob·al·ize
ˈglō-bə-ˌlīz 
globalized; globalizing
: to make global
especially
: to make worldwide in scope or application
globalize a company's operations
Examples of globalize in a Sentence
The economy has become globalized.
The company is planning to globalize.
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Brexit’s backers sold the project as a magic bullet that would solve the problems caused by a globalizing economy — not unlike Mr. Trump’s claims that tariffs would be a boon to the public purse and a remedy for the inequities of global trade.
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Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Trump has mused on multiple occasions that there could be trade actions for the pharmaceutical industry, which has globalized since the 1990s with a drug supply chain that stretches from Europe to India.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
In sum, Washington should focus less on the positive-sum project of globalizing the liberal order and more on the zero-sum imperative of stopping determined adversaries from imposing their own, antithetical visions of how the world should work.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Now everything is back to being globalized, so streamers are de facto studios.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
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Mark Landler, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
Trump has mused on multiple occasions that there could be trade actions for the pharmaceutical industry, which has globalized since the 1990s with a drug supply chain that stretches from Europe to India.
—Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2025
In sum, Washington should focus less on the positive-sum project of globalizing the liberal order and more on the zero-sum imperative of stopping determined adversaries from imposing their own, antithetical visions of how the world should work.
—Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Now everything is back to being globalized, so streamers are de facto studios.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for globalize
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“Globalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/globalize. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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