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In Germany, Dobrindt in June opened a new Joint Center for Countering Hybrid Threats in Berlin, aiming to centralize work detecting and combating espionage, sabotage, disinformation and state-sponsored terrorism, among other dangers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Last year, Allen came under fire after announcing sweeping cuts at about two dozen local affiliates that included laying off meteorologists, part of a reorganization to centralize forecasts at the Weather Channel in Atlanta.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Now that we have one clear policy, we can update all of our Help pages and try to centralize this a bit more.

From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026

It’s unclear whether Paramount would sell the historic Melrose Avenue lot or simply centralize the sprawling operations onto the Warner Bros. and Paramount lots in Burbank and Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The move effectively centralizes control over the entire department’s operations—putting the power to shape staffing, spending, and priorities for the department’s thousands of duties into the hands of a single office.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2025

The biggest problem is that it centralizes Europeanness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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

For the past five years, Boeing has talked up the advances it has made with what is called “model-based engineering,” which centralizes all information about a project in a digital model.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

For Honolulu is truly a metropolis, gay, hospitable, and restless, and this hotel centralizes the restlessness. 

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

Broken TV economics have prompted the NBA to begin making plans to build a centralized streaming platform for fans to watch basketball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The effect was to challenge the CIA’s longstanding culture of centralized intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

Despite providing millions of Americans with health insurance coverage for the first time, these programs had few centralized mechanisms for the kind of federal oversight that could prevent and catch fraud and abuse.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

By the early 1900s, meatpacking had centralized: nearly 90 percent of all beef inspected east of the Rocky Mountains was processed by six big companies.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

“Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it,” Zuckerberg wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

Rather than centralizing this power, we believe that delivering personal superintelligence to everyone is the way to answer this question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

“It’s just centralizing all of the different parts of the road map that I’ve been trying to build for myself.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Adopting a blended-data approach, using private and public sources, and potentially centralizing statistical agencies could improve data quality and timeliness.

From Barron's ● Nov. 22, 2025

But in all branches of industry—and death is an industry, my young friend, make no mistake about that—one makes one’s money from operating in bulk, from buying in quantity, from centralizing one’s operations.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman