centralized

past tense of centralize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of centralized The Hoosier cabinet is a freestanding kitchen workstation and storage area that centralized and sped up food preparation. ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 But they’re endowed with a fundamentally different intelligence, one shaped by a separate evolutionary path and defined by a nervous system that’s distributed throughout their bodies rather than centralized like that of the brains of most animals. Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 29 July 2026 Only 14% of enterprise leaders have centralized content management in place. Benjamin Faes, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 The versatile dock eliminates the clutter from the wall outlet and keeps everything centralized. Carlos Mejia, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026 To support the industry, the Garment Center Capitol Association centralized at two now-iconic addresses. Tonya Blazio-Licorish, Footwear News, 23 June 2026 Direct bus service from the Westside to SoFi Stadium is centralized around the downtown Santa Monica World Cup service station. Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026 There would be a 50/50 split in revenue between the league and players, and all local media revenues would be centralized. Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 28 May 2026 That model was built around an assumption that security data needed to be centralized in one location for analysis. K.h. Koehler, USA Today, 18 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for centralized
Verb
  • Jeanie prevailed in the dispute and further consolidated her control of the organization.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
  • When it was set up, in 2003, the DHS consolidated the functions of 22 existing agencies into one.
    Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Twenty-two wide moats were downgraded, twenty to narrow and two to none, concentrated in enterprise software, IT services and payroll, hitting names like Workday, Adobe, Salesforce and ADP.
    Jemma Green, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Hiring has been largely concentrated in a few select sectors like healthcare.
    Dana Taylor, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • In defense, Lockheed Martin integrated additive manufacturing into production for a GMLRS antenna assembly test unit.
    Rich Garrity, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Lucas and his collaborators integrated this symmetry into Liu’s effective field theory in 2024.
    Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026

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“Centralized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/centralized. Accessed 23 Aug. 2026.

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