industrialize
verb
in·dus·tri·al·ize
in-ˈdə-strē-ə-ˌlīz 
industrialized; industrializing
: to make industrial
industrialize an agricultural region
: to become industrial
Examples of industrialize in a Sentence
The government hopes to industrialize some of the agricultural regions.
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Sundar Pichai’s Google is industrializing AI at planetary scale, embedding intelligence across search, productivity, and global information flows.
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Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Comprising five books, the series takes place from 1860 to 1968 in Stockholm, and recounts the city’s transformation from poor and barely industrialized to a shining capital of the modern welfare state.
—Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Farmers in the modern world Farmers’ contribution to the Cold War shored up their cultural and political importance in a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing United States.
—Peter Simons, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
Farmers in the modern world Farmers’ contribution to the Cold War shored up their cultural and political importance in a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing United States.
—Peter Simons, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026
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Phil Kafarakis, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Comprising five books, the series takes place from 1860 to 1968 in Stockholm, and recounts the city’s transformation from poor and barely industrialized to a shining capital of the modern welfare state.
—Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Farmers in the modern world Farmers’ contribution to the Cold War shored up their cultural and political importance in a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing United States.
—Peter Simons, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2026
Farmers in the modern world Farmers’ contribution to the Cold War shored up their cultural and political importance in a rapidly industrializing and urbanizing United States.
—Peter Simons, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2026
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industrialize
verb
in·dus·tri·al·ize
in-ˈdəs-trē-ə-ˌlīz
industrialized; industrializing
: to make or become industrial
industrialize an agricultural region
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