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localize

[loh-kuh-lahyz] / ˈloʊ kəˌlaɪz /


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Ukraine needs to localize production so it isn’t reliant on other countries that can cut off supply, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But China’s robotics industry has mostly overcome its issues thanks to efforts to localize the production of major components, as well as its willingness to direct capital with government-backed national road maps.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Fragmentation compels banks and asset managers to localize balance sheets and hold excess capital, constraining cross-border intermediation and dampening growth.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

They acknowledge and make efforts to localize experiences for American fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

The tendency to localize is the propensity which degrades literature, as it is the chief bane and destroyer of individual character.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

The text is by the California poet Dana Gioia, who seamlessly localizes paradise as a place to be preserved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023

Dowdy didn’t specify what steps Netflix plans to take as part of its new initiative to ensure that shows and movies’ original voices are maintained as the streamer localizes them.

From The Verge ● May 19, 2022

Work on semiconductors at Bell Labs led Anderson to propose in 1957 that disorder — such as that caused by defects and impurities in a material — localizes electron waves, producing an insulator.

From Nature ● Apr. 30, 2020

Tacoma author Marcia Crews, who also wrote “Three Bears of the Pacific Northwest,” localizes another fairytale in her new book, set once-upon-a-time on the Salish Sea.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 15, 2018

There is, however, a variation of this story, which localizes it in Copenhagen at Our Lady's Church there, and that the apprentice cried out that he saw two axes.

From A Danish Parsonage by John Fulford Vicary

Pope Leo XIV announced the presence of the lung nodule on Sunday, saying it had been "detected at a very early stage" and was localized.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

At his weekly blessing on Sunday, the pope said doctors had recently found a small, localized nodule in his lung.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

High surf battered parts of Huntington Beach, resulting in localized flooding on streets in the Sunset Beach area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

These added elements create localized electrons within the material.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

The bleep grew larger, localized now, between his ribs on the right side.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

“It’s part of a broader commitment to deeply localizing its brands, and positions digital as the primary sales channel, rather than relying on traditional store distribution as the foundation.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

The turning point came in the 1980s, when operators began aggressively localizing the concept.

From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026

But eventually, Yang believes, localizing production will be necessary to better expand in promising markets including Japan, Korea and Singapore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2025

As this fluorescence is used for localizing them, accurately determining their positions becomes impossible.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

The progress of economic evolution has resulted in localizing certain industries and in restraining certain branches of commerce to the groups of merchants best suited to their promotion.

From The Stages in the Social History of Capitalism by Henri Pirenne


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