centralize
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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
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
Find insight on Syensqo’s strategic review, Indonesia’s plans to centralize exports and more in the latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 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
Sure enough, conflict between them broke open at the end of January, when Lawrence appeared in Chicago with a proposal to centralize all the plutonium and isotope work, including the atomic pile, at Berkeley.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Meta’s ad platform centralizes buying across its properties—including Instagram and Facebook—and is extremely effective, using advanced targeting and optimization to deliver better performance than other digital media outlets, with the possible exception of Google.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
The biggest problem is that it centralizes Europeanness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
Fan has been working with Chinese institutions to set up more community care, rather than the current system, which centralizes care in major hospitals.
From Washington Post ● May 19, 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
If you hold your mind on some chosen object, you centralize your attention, just like the lens of the camera centralizes on a certain landscape.
From The Power of Concentration by Dumont, Theron Q.
Will it be centralized and restricted to a few institutions, or will it be a tool that empowers everyone?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Under the VAR system, officials sitting before a bank of monitors in a centralized control room review match footage in real time and advise the on-field referee of potential errors.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
However, that process depends on hazardous organic solvents and typically requires specialized centralized facilities.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Early in our study, their money flows were also more centralized.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
These bigger settlements required more centralized administration; natural resources like good land and spawning streams, though not scarce, now needed to be managed.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Rather than centralizing this power, we believe that delivering personal superintelligence to everyone is the way to answer this question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
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
In centralizing their worlds, Morrison made serious explorations into the effects of personal and ancestral trauma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
I was an anthropology doctoral student and human rights worker, studying the effects of Putin’s centralizing policies and of the country’s Christian nationalist media on the everyday lives of Russians.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 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
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