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Waller has been pressing the regional banks to cede more operational autonomy, while the banks have pushed back against his plan to centralize back-office functions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

Indonesia accounts for nearly half of internationally traded thermal-coal supply and recently announced plans to centralize exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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

The move comes after Disney’s board and newly installed Chief Executive Josh D’Amaro unveiled a more streamlined management structure that sought to centralize its sprawling marketing operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

The plan was accepted at most branches, but some of the more far-flung outposts felt that the plan was an effort by Jo-hannesburg to centralize control over the regions.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

An app that centralizes France’s vaccine and other medical appointments, Doctolib, announced Tuesday that 1.3 million people signed up for injections after Macron gave a televised address Monday night urging more vaccination.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2021

Thus the State gradually becomes the debtor of most of the wealthier members of the community, and centralizes the largest amounts of capital in its own hands.

From Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Reeves, Henry

“Attempting to aggregate knowledge for the use of a centralized intelligence faces the same challenge.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Early in our study, their money flows were also more centralized.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

Direct bus service from the Westside to SoFi Stadium is centralized around the downtown Santa Monica World Cup service station.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

A long-standing idea in neuroscience holds that the brain acts as a centralized controller that decides which actions an animal will perform.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

That is, they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago, and they dwelt in villages not organized under any centralized political authority.

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

This year, the company has been centralizing its operations, including folding its marketing for entertainment, sports and experiences into a single division that reports to Asad Ayaz, its chief marketing officer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026

Iranian state media acknowledged his death late Saturday; Khamenei had led the Islamic Republic since 1989, centralizing religious and political power and steering Iran into prolonged confrontation with both Israel and the United States.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2026

In centralizing their worlds, Morrison made serious explorations into the effects of personal and ancestral trauma.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 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