centralized

past tense of centralize

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of centralized The administration has centralized permitting, with the implicit goal of halting projects, and even gone so far as issuing stop work orders to projects already underway. Justin Worland, Time, 19 Sep. 2025 Once centralized, the real opportunity is to use data to personalize and involve fans. Geoff Robins, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2025 Contracts must be centralized and integrated with core systems for agents to be effective. Monish Darda, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 All coordination is centralized in the human. Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025 By 1970, a pumpkin plant in nearby Eureka had closed, and operations centralized in Morton. Katherine Laidlaw, HubSpot, 5 Sep. 2025 Instead of relying on third-party middleware or centralized off-chain services, some of these frameworks allow compliance features, such as KYC, audit logging and real-time controls, to be embedded directly at the blockchain level. Thiago Rüdiger, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025 The permitting process is now centralized in Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s office. Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for centralized
Verb
  • The bombshell case was later consolidated as part of a $400 million lawsuit against The New York Times, Lively and the actress' husband Ryan Reynolds.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Republicans quickly consolidated Democrats, Antifa, and trans people into one radical enemy.
    Grace Byron, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Erewhon is a luxury grocery store chain with locations across Southern California, primarily concentrated in the greater Los Angeles area.
    Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Northeast has always been very strong in culture and in its own ways of doing things, its own way of speaking, with our own accents, and the money was always historically concentrated in the Southeast.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The evidence suggests that both of these African descendants were fully integrated into their respective communities sharing family ties and even the grave.
    Duncan Sayer, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The nanopores are anchored in an electrically resistant membrane, which is integrated onto a sensor chip.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Centralized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/centralized. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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