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
  • For some stores, data entry and phone calls have been centralized elsewhere so pharmacists can spend more time engaging with patients.
    Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
  • These anxieties have led to calls to centralize the rules, processes, and even the administration of elections.
    Jenna Bednar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The department isn't centralized in certain cities without reason, Jewell said.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The department isn’t centralized in certain cities without reason, Jewell said.
    Juliet Eilperin and Darryl Fears, idahostatesman, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Under cloud computing, computers have largely been centralized in the Internet or what is referred to as the cloud.
    Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2018
  • Whitman said in a statement that the agency had begun to centralize its inspection tracking programs and should be completed by the end of 2018.
    Andrew Theen, OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
  • The company centralized management and parts procurement; those, too, failed disastrously.
    Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 27 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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