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nationalize

[nash-uh-nl-ahyz, nash-nuh-lahyz] / ˈnæʃ ə nlˌaɪz, ˈnæʃ nəˌlaɪz /


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Nationally, he might be able to nationalize Thames Water, a troubled utility serving southern England, but bigger targets are constrained by the budget deficit.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

The deal would effectively nationalize an industry Belgium had spent years trying to phase out.

From Barron's Jun. 5, 2026

To meet that need, Congress enacted the SSI program in 1972 to nationalize the state welfare programs for adults 65 and older and those with disabilities.

From MarketWatch Mar. 10, 2026

But the temptation to nationalize the outcome here is a misleading one.

From Slate Feb. 14, 2024

The loyal service of immigrant soldiers and sailors commit us to instruct and nationalize their brothers in breed.

From Conservation Through Engineering Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior by Franklin K. Lane

June 1960 - Cuba nationalizes U.S.-owned oil refineries after they refuse to process Soviet oil.

From Washington Times Dec. 4, 2016

For participating firms, the industry pledge effectively nationalizes the California ban on companies using personal information about students for activities not authorized by schools.

From New York Times Oct. 7, 2014

Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal, and Israeli armies, under secret pact with Britain and France, invade the Sinai peninsula.

From Time Magazine Archive

The document promotes equality for Bolivia's put-upon indigenous majority and nationalizes several natural resources, among other changes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this state land nationalizes may note the character of the movement towards small holdings.

From Down Under With the Prince by Sara Jeannette Duncan

It found devastating damage to Cerro Negro, the project it operated before 2007 when its infrastructure was nationalized.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Mulder points to British Steel as the poster child: nationalized by Labour in 1951, privatized by Conservatives in 1953, renationalized by Labour in 1967 and reprivatized by Thatcher in 1987.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

“Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized: You compare it to nukes…threaten half of white-collar jobs…warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity…then race ahead anyway,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 20, 2026

Zvërnec has proved to be a thicket of Albanian property disputes, a common problem given that the country nationalized property during communism then underwent a messy process of returning it to private ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

But his main claim to fame was that he nationalized Iran's oil industry.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

It has held a position in the Garnier and Maybelline owner since 1974, when it bought in at the request of L’Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt to help stop the French government from nationalizing the company.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

A prospective soldier needed to bring his own weapon to join the military, a clever means of nationalizing Somaliland’s supply of loose guns while saving the government the cost and hassle of purchasing firearms.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 4, 2026

Both Lamb and Ossoff avoided doing too much national media and avoided nationalizing the race.

From Slate Dec. 2, 2025

The roots of his presidential campaign date to 1987, when amid a spiraling economic crisis, the Peruvian government proposed nationalizing banks.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 13, 2025

In addition to suffrage, Victoria Woodhull's political platform called for labor reform, nationalizing railroads, prison reform, and rewriting the tax code.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling



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