How to Use digitization in a Sentence

digitization

noun
  • While the concept has been around for a long time, the rapid rise of digitization in recent years has unlocked a whole other world.
    Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • In a way, that is the promise and consequence of digitization—everything is bits, software eats the world, and so forth.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Fortune: What are some of the cost savings related to the digitization process?
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2022
  • But the digitization of records has been a boon to historians, and slowly a fragmented picture of Clark’s life has emerged.
    Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • That shift is, of course, closely related to the digitization of banking.
    Erin Slater, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • What gives: Goldman attributes the gains to the benefits of digitization.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • But while Afghan film digitization efforts have been ongoing since the fall of the Taliban, funding and equipment shortages have slowed the process in recent years.
    Jeva Lange, The Week, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Now this urban folk art form is giving way to digitization.
    Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2024
  • So the automation, digitization, that process takes a very long time.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The final rolls of microfilm are scanned as the church completes a major digitization effort that began more than 20 years ago.
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 2021
  • At the center of the short film was the digitization of county records, which helped Reyes win an appeal to avoid a conviction by getting treatment instead of a decadeslong sentence.
    Arturo Conde, NBC News, 7 Oct. 2023
  • The war in Ukraine is the first conflict of its scale and scope to happen in the era of mass digitization, with an almost unlimited ability to store and record information.
    WIRED, 10 July 2023
  • Many urgent cares have always been equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide the best care to the patient, but the digitization of healthcare is only increasing.
    Sean Hart, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Cities have got better over the past two decades at responding to common crises, such as Covid-19, which also required rapid, mass digitization of services.
    Peter Guest, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Crucial systems work better, many types of corruption have been reined in and digitization of commerce has opened up new arenas for growth.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • While the structural shift toward greater digitization will drive the theme in the long run, valuations are also a bit high, making the risk-to-reward tradeoff a bit less attractive for the near term.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But this digitization doesn't mean the ATF has created a searchable database.
    Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Lack of funding means the vast majority of digitization work on the continent relies on grant and donor funding.
    Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Yellen has said that budget cuts could also slow down the digitization process and hamper efforts to improve customer service.
    Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Many dealers are protected, to some degree, from the chilling winds of digitization.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Germany already has a plan to supercharge the use of robots and AI in job functions that face a talent shortage or that can be supported by digitization.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 29 May 2024
  • Wu-Tang auctioned off the album, which was both lambasted as an elitist stunt-art hoax and embraced as a shrewd protest against digitization’s erosion of music’s value, for half that price in 2015.
    Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Share Tech The digitization of cars is helping to give some chip makers a lift Chip sales that have declined across many customer segments are still enjoying one area of rising demand: cars.
    Asa Fitch, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2023
  • There has been mass digitization of archival newspapers since 2005.
    Bill Swank, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2024
  • These digitization efforts are arriving just as the documents’ fate hangs in the balance.
    Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The digitization of books has not yet led to a revolution in remixing the texts within, nor have authors shifted to thinking in snippets as opposed to paragraphs and chapters.
    WIRED, 16 June 2023
  • That the virtual world Zuckerberg wants to invent might open this Pandora’s box of deviant digitization should come as no surprise.
    Timothy Lloyd, The New Republic, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The overarching theme of the collections was an appreciation for craft in the age of digitization.
    Vogue, 25 May 2022
  • At one point, officials said, the West Virginia facility held so many paper records that the floors started sagging, prompting them to speed up their digitization process and build temporary structures to store the records in the parking lot.
    Perry Stein, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • In the last few years, digitization, sustainability, traceability and recycling have been extremely important.
    Mayu Saini, Sourcing Journal, 2 July 2024

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