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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

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

As Haitians continue streaming into Cap-Haïtien, some caution that the only way for the city to really become the capital again is to decentralize the government.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2024

In general the desire to decentralize credits explains why the act makes very much greater changes in existing arrangements than were proposed in the bill of the Monetary Commission.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

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

"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

To a purist, a blockchain must be a system, like bitcoin, that decentralizes both data and power.

From Slate ● Jan. 5, 2018

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

Resilience comes from America’s decentralized voting and independent judiciary.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

During 15 visits to Ukraine over the past year, Tokushige was struck by the fact that production was decentralized across offices, apartments and shopping malls, with part-time workers assembling smaller drones using soldering irons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Wisconsin, New Hampshire, and Minnesota are among a small group of states with a decentralized election system, in which individual cities and towns, rather than counties, are responsible for administering ballots.

From Slate ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

Whether the science of the future may not supply some decentralizing agency, which shall reverse the centralizing force of modern industry, is not a wholly frivolous speculation to suggest.

From Problems of Poverty by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson