decentralize
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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
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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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