How to Use centralize in a Sentence

centralize

verb

• The controversial reforms could be used to further centralize power in the hands of one party.
• All shipping operations have been centralized at the Miami office.
• The question is, what can be centralized and what can’t?
  — Betsy Z. Russell, idahostatesman, 25 Jan. 2018
• The only way to scale it reasonably in states is to centralize more of the work.
  — Jessica Huseman, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2020
• But Ford and Fisher centralize the plot around a zippy mood of flagrant cool.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2019
• And a lot of the decision-making for creative projects doesn’t tend to be centralized.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
• Xi would do well to note the outcome of Mao’s attempt to centralize power and control.
  — Minxin Pei, Foreign Affairs, 21 Nov. 2022
• When the city was re-united in 1852, the city government was centralized in the newer building.
  — Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• The layoffs come as Wells is in the midst of centralizing functions and cutting billions of dollars in costs in the wake of the sales scandal.
  — Deon Roberts, charlotteobserver, 19 Oct. 2017
• Utah has gone the other way and is building its own app that will use GPS as well as Bluetooth and will centralize the data.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 5 June 2020
• The group marched to Huntington Place to centralize two groups of protesters in the downtown area.
  — Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 19 May 2024
• For loose items such as bagels or muffins, the bakery has centralized barcodes hanging on signs.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2020
• Lac du Flambeau is a hub, Doud said, and feels centralized to Wisconsin's 11 tribes.
  — Natalie Eilbert, Journal Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2024
• Revenue from the sponsorship will be centralized across all 30 clubs in MLB.
  — Maury Brown, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
• Another key factor is the U.S. and Canada having the resources to centralize their teams in one place during the four-month lead-up to the Olympics.
  — John Wawrow, ajc, 5 Feb. 2022
• The import and marketing of wheat, like that of other goods in Tunisia, are highly centralized.
  — Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2023
• The city closed its jail doors last year as part of a larger effort to centralize housing inmates into the county jail.
  — Eric Heisig, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2019
• The White House has long sought to centralize decision-making to overcome...
  — John Lehman, WSJ, 17 Feb. 2020
• In a great stroke of pragmatism, Signal chose to be centralized anyway.
  — Kai Ye, WIRED, 23 July 2023
• Importantly, the new group is not intended to take over or centralize the array of work that will be done in these areas.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
• Flickinger said centralizing some meat packaging is all right, but there still has to be the service at the store, the master meat cutter or butcher.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2024
• The new building will centralize those offerings, and be able to handle more than 3,000 students.
  — Teri Figueroa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Exxon has also looked to centralize traders in London this year to attract and retain talent.
  — Devika Krishna Kumar, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2023
• Like the human immune system, the global one isn't centralized.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 1 Jan. 2024
• This new application will centralize the rent assistance process for the whole state.
  — Karina Andrew, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
• Manage your memories One of the smartest tech products of 2019 centralizes all your digital photos and videos, and keeps them all in one place.
  — Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2019
• Her main interests in life centralized around her children and grandchildren, and she was involved in each of their lives.
  — Orlando Sentinel, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 Apr. 2018
• The president has centralized power in the White House at the expense of cabinet agencies.
  — Bobby Jindal, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
• Sherrill said the Biden administration must take further steps to streamline and centralize its probe into drone sightings.
  — Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
• By gathering hourly data from an extensive network across the Southwest, the tool simplifies and centralizes information that fire managers previously had to source from numerous platforms, Crimmins said.
  — Skylar Heisey, The Arizona Republic, 17 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Jan 2025