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industrialize

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


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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

In the same 50 years, settlers had continued their westward push with the backing of the federal government, displacing Native Americans, and urban centers had begun to industrialize, leading to labor unrest among workers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

In effect, China is trying to industrialize hobby spending.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

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

Sadly, it afflicts much of the industrialized world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

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

Many of these bacteria are rarely found in people living in modern industrialized societies.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

I had read and heard that President Nasser’s administration had built up one of the most highly industrialized countries on the African continent.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

When historians search for parallels, they often point to the period before the Civil War, when an industrializing North and an agrarian South were divided over slavery.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 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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