decentralize
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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
I believe that was the reason: an attempt to decentralize the media and kind of break it down.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2025
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
This purpose was to decentralize credits by lessening the concentration of banking funds in a few large banks in the chief financial centers, and especially in New York.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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
“The quota system decentralizes and simplifies execution but incentivizes local authorities to prioritize output at any cost. This can create abuses.”
From Slate ● Oct. 23, 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
The approach essentially decentralizes the health system, gathering and responding to data in real-time instead of waiting for a national level analysis.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2021
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 Brownson, Orestes Augustus
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
That committee’s report also said Harvard was highly decentralized compared with its peers, operating an “Every Tub on its Own Bottom” system where each subsidiary prepares its own budgets and raises its own funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
The play, which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize this year, entices on the page despite seeming overstuffed and curiously decentralized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
This broader, decentralized spirit manifests visibly across the country.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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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
States legislatures, in turn, delegate most of the management of elections to counties or other smaller government units, further decentralizing control over elections.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
I gave myself to my work, and then a curious decentralizing process took place.
From The Daughters of Danaus by Caird, Mona
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