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decentralize

[dee-sen-truh-lahyz] / diˈsɛn trəˌlaɪz /


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Even the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ command and control over its components is uncertain, due in part to Iran’s longstanding defensive strategy to decentralize authority, which it executed at the war’s outset.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

The USDA’s program began doling out grants to states and tribal governments in 2022, in an attempt to decentralize and diversify food supply chains after the strain of the pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 6, 2025

Meanwhile, Zaragoza has promised to prioritize climate change and renewable energy, decentralize the island’s education department and improve access to health.

From Seattle Times Jun. 2, 2024

But Valderrama Blanco says Gálvez Ruiz will decentralize science policy and give more authority over science funding to Mexico’s state governments, an approach discouraged by the current law.

From Science Magazine May 2, 2024

To rid himself of this new idea, and to decentralize the illusion, he shifted his position.

From Phantom Wires A Novel by Arthur William Brown

The draft is expected to be the first sporting event to be held at The Sphere and a showcase opportunity for the league before the draft decentralizes starting in 2025.

From Washington Times Dec. 5, 2023

As space exploration expands, decentralizes, and privatizes, U.S. regulators and officials urgently need more effective methods of keeping it safe and efficient.

From Slate Oct. 2, 2023

"Willow" decentralizes the typical white male hero in its power fantasy, making the most important person in the universe a baby girl and the second most a little person.

From Salon Nov. 30, 2022

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

Now, this division of power, which decentralizes the government without creating mutually hostile forces, can hardly be introduced into any European state.

From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson

Our water system’s decentralized, fragmented nature, perhaps a bit like our electoral system, is a double-edged sword, inasmuch as its vulnerabilities are atomized—at least a single hacker can’t contaminate all the water in the country.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

“The holy grail of prediction markets, they shed light on some of the most consequential, decentralized and human processes in the world, where good data is crucial and hard to find.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

“The U.S. is always trying to push mission command and decentralized execution on our partners,” said Montgomery, a former rear admiral who served more than three decades in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

The word “DeFiant” was a coy wink to this idea of decentralized currency, known as DeFi, the ostensible rationale for the new Trump–Witkoff platform.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

As with Pythagoras, in Darwin’s model, every organism carried information to build organs and structures in miniaturized form—except in Darwin’s case, the information was decentralized.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The president reiterated his commitment to decentralizing the economy and granting greater autonomy to state-owned enterprises, which account for roughly 80 percent of economic activity.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

In “Humanocracy,” Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini describe how decentralizing individual responsibility helps businesses thrive.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

COVID-19 transformed the sheltering and rescue world in many ways, primarily by decentralizing it.

From Salon Dec. 6, 2024

One solution may be decentralizing them by creating a network of small facilities that are harder to hit than large plants.

From Seattle Times Apr. 4, 2024

Linux, on the other hand, was more like "a great babbling bazaar," a software program developed through the loose decentralizing dynamics of the Internet.

From Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software by Sam Williams



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