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decentralize

[dee-sen-truh-lahyz] / diˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz /


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Andy Burnham proposes “business-friendly socialism” to decentralize power and address household bills, aiming to save Labour from defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

The USDA’s program began doling out grants to states and tribal governments in 2022, in an attempt to decentralize and diversify food supply chains after the strain of the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2025

I believe that was the reason: an attempt to decentralize the media and kind of break it down.

From Salon Feb. 2, 2025

But Valderrama Blanco says Gálvez Ruiz will decentralize science policy and give more authority over science funding to Mexico’s state governments, an approach discouraged by the current law.

From Science Magazine May 2, 2024

It is probable, therefore, that on the whole the effect of Socialism would be to decentralize rather than to centralize.

From Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Kelly, Edmond

The draft is expected to be the first sporting event to be held at The Sphere and a showcase opportunity for the league before the draft decentralizes starting in 2025.

From Washington Times Dec. 5, 2023

Web2 centralizes a bunch of cool stuff that was happening with Web1, but you are saying Web3 decentralizes it again.

From The Verge Apr. 12, 2022

But Rhimes' most bewildering choice decentralizes the glamorous predator at its center to make the writer the star.

From Salon Feb. 12, 2022

To a purist, a blockchain must be a system, like bitcoin, that decentralizes both data and power.

From Slate Jan. 5, 2018

Now, this division of power, which decentralizes the government without creating mutually hostile forces, can hardly be introduced into any European state.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus

The word “DeFiant” was a coy wink to this idea of decentralized currency, known as DeFi, the ostensible rationale for the new Trump–Witkoff platform.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

The play, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize this year, entices on the page despite seeming overstuffed and curiously decentralized.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Menefee wrote on his campaign site that blockchain technology, the decentralized system used to record and verify crypto transactions, offers the potential to “increase trust, transparency and efficiency” with rules to protect consumers.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

The decentralized exchange has become “a global phenomenon,” Ndinga said, even if it’s not available to U.S. investors for regulatory reasons.

From MarketWatch Jun. 5, 2026

As with Pythagoras, in Darwin’s model, every organism carried information to build organs and structures in miniaturized form—except in Darwin’s case, the information was decentralized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The president reiterated his commitment to decentralizing the economy and granting greater autonomy to state-owned enterprises, which account for roughly 80 percent of economic activity.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

In “Humanocracy,” Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini describe how decentralizing individual responsibility helps businesses thrive.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

COVID-19 transformed the sheltering and rescue world in many ways, primarily by decentralizing it.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2024

One solution may be decentralizing them by creating a network of small facilities that are harder to hit than large plants.

From Seattle Times Apr. 4, 2024

Well-meaning optimists," he says, "have seen in this a means of decentralizing capital, so that after a while, in the most peaceable manner, without any one noticing it, capital would be transformed into social property.

From Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement by Walling, William English



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