How to Use containerization in a Sentence
containerization
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Tisch says this phase of containerization more broadly steers the city in the right direction.
—Jeongyoon Han, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
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The city recently launched a study on trash containerization that should be completed in a few months.
—Jeffery C. Mays, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
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That was all fine, but then containerization happened, somewhere around the start of the previous decade.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
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New York is embarking on its first study to explore citywide trash containerization.
—Diana Budds, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2022
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Before containerization, goods had to be loaded and reloaded by hand at every stop along the supply chain—from ship to port, from port to train, from train to truck.
—Frank Holmes, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
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Instead, many companies opt for some degree of containerization.
—Steve Daly, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
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But as recently as a few years ago, getting a lift-and-dump containerization system onto our streets seemed about as likely as a new lunar landing.
—The Editors, Curbed, 15 Dec. 2025
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Our current design is based on containerization, and ECS is what makes that possible.
—Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 19 July 2023
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Cheap overseas labor, global trade agreements, containerization, and the emergence of big box stores and mass-discount retailers all drove this trend.
—Dave Margulius, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2018
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One of the largest containerization experiments the city has embarked upon is happening in Queens.
—Diana Budds, Curbed, 1 Sep. 2022
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To minimize the risk of this happening, teams may choose pre-hardened images from containerization services that have already secured their images.
—Felysha Walker, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2026
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The city has been taking slow steps to embrace trash containerization, starting a pilot of a few commercial bins and commissioning a study of the issue citywide.
—Curbed, 1 Dec. 2022
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The result will be a shift toward lightweight virtualization and containerization platforms that scale to meet the demands of edge deployments.
—Pierluca Chiodelli, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
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Mitigate this through strategies such as containerization, open APIs and multi-cloud strategies.
—Navneet Tyagi, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
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All this began to change with containerization, as goods were no longer shipped loose but packed into containers that stacked efficiently, and transferred easily between ships and trucks and trains.
—Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2017
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For those who feel strongly about landlords saving money, supers getting their sleep or drivers finding a place to park, trash containerization arrived like the first horseman of the apocalypse.
—Christopher Maag, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2024
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The site for the new construction was London’s West India Docks, which was once the largest port in the world but had been hollowed out by containerization.
—Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
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That was one reason my article on containerization got so much attention — if people in New York aren’t obsessed with trash, they are obsessed with parking.
—Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 8 June 2023
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The move is part of a recent push to implement containerization citywide, which would be one of the most effective ways to mitigate New York’s out-of-control rat problem.
—Curbed, 18 May 2023
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The focus on containerization has also seen the Nano Server deployment of Windows Server change.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 14 July 2017
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Adams has previously implemented containerization pilot programs in some neighborhoods in the city.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
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With the rise of containerization, the docks closed in 1981, leading to high levels of unemployment in the surrounding communities.
—Paul Talling, CNN, 10 July 2017
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For instance, containerization is an important approach to consider for improving the utilization of servers on which applications are deployed.
—Shankar Kambhampaty, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
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Approaches such as virtualization and containerization can help to make workloads leaner and reduce physical server footprint.
—Ivo Ivanov, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2025
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That is, containerization technology had the effect of intensifying activity to where cranes, gantries, rails, and truck access were located.
—Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 1 Jan. 2021
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Our approach to pest management focuses on reducing food sources, improving waste containerization, and correcting structural conditions that allow rats to thrive.
—Elle McLogan, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
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According to 2023 projections from the city's sanitation department, even with the containerization plans in place, some neighborhoods still won’t be able to keep up with the trash.
—Jeongyoon Han, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
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Will the Sanitation Department’s garbage containerization plan make sidewalks cleaner?
—New York Times, 13 May 2024
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Waste containerization, done right, should incentivize waste reduction and the separation of recyclable and compostable waste, thus helping the city meet its climate goals and improve residents’ quality of life.
—The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
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In a statement to The News, Abreu didn’t address the question of whether he was invited to Thursday’s news conference, but stressed that the push for trash containerization in the city has been a joint effort.
—Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
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