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industrialize

[in-duhs-tree-uh-lahyz] / ɪnˈdʌs tri əˌlaɪz /
VERB
mechanize
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG


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As decades passed, she watched it change and industrialize, the population grow.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Now, Beijing is trying to industrialize something stranger: humanoid robots that can assemble parts, inspect products, move boxes and eventually take on some of the repetitive work still done by humans.

From MarketWatch May 27, 2026

He expects to be able to commercialize them within one to two years and industrialize the process in another two to three years.

From Barron's Dec. 16, 2025

In South Korea, the country’s sprawling family-run conglomerates turbocharged the "Miracle on the Han River" by marshaling capital, technology and labor to industrialize the country at breakneck speed.

From Salon Dec. 31, 2024

In addition to the collectivization of farms, the Five-Year Plans also aimed to industrialize the USSR.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

But, as D’Souza rather proudly observes, the adjudication process is stripped of the inconvenience of courts: “The Gawker litigation took ten years and millions of dollars. Objection industrializes this process.”

From Salon Apr. 23, 2026

“This trend is likely to continue as the Global South industrializes further and consumers have greater disposable income to spend on comfort.”

From Seattle Times Sep. 11, 2023

“President Magufuli is very committed to ensure that the country industrializes, but you cannot industrialize unless you have access to electricity,” Adesina told journalists on Saturday after his talks with the president.

From Reuters Apr. 28, 2018

“This is proof that when such a big country industrializes, its effect will spread everywhere.”

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2013

And it came about because more than half a century ago, when it appeared that the coast was becoming too privatized and industrialized, a citizen uprising led to the protections we enjoy today.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2026

It follows a 0.6% rise in the first quarter—the fastest among the Group of 7 leading industrialized nations.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

By 2001 China had industrialized the same trade, and the machine had two engines.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

The researchers pointed to the need for lower sodium levels in industrialized and ultra-processed foods, which are major contributors to excessive salt intake.

From Science Daily Jun. 4, 2026

Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

As the argument went, Hindu nationalism was an ideology largely confined to the Hindi-speaking belt of North India, and a handful of industrializing Western states such as Gujarat and Maharashtra.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

"We're industrializing an easier way of forming sheet metal based on origami," says chief executive and co-founder, Jonas Nyvang.

From BBC Mar. 3, 2026

Like West Africa, El Salvador is a past source country for the production of rubber, essential to an industrializing Europe’s historic colonizing abroad.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2024

But industrializing economies, particularly in Asian countries with inexpensive access to domestic coal reserves, have set longer horizons for their transitions.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2024

This is a point to which, along with other general questions connected with the industrializing of China, I shall return in my last chapter.

From The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell




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