How to Use industrialization in a Sentence

industrialization

noun
  • When there is quantity, there is the first light of the dawn for industrialization.
    Karen Chu, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
  • That’s why it was used to power the industrialization of the global North — and why the global South is still relying on it.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 10 May 2024
  • In the East, Japan was the forerunner of Western industrialization, but many Japanese now want less of that and more out of life.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Since the dawn of industrialization, philanthropy has been the main way for companies to do good.
    Bypeter Vanham, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
  • This changed during the railway boom of the 1830s and the period of industrialization that followed.
    Chris Dixon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Along with trapping, industrialization and habitat loss pushed beavers out of the area and they were last reported in 1877 as a result, said Great Lakes Now.
    Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In the early years of industrialization, children routinely worked 12 to 14 hours a day in British mills.
    Fred Turner, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Yuts' brain is the way those maps have been impacted by industrialization and climate change.
    Clayton Purdom, Chron, 5 Dec. 2022
  • The ceremony aims to help heal the water, long polluted by industrialization in Portland, and the wildlife that lives in it.
    Austindedios, oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Further, the data derived from the core sample only goes up to the mid-1800s, prior to the warming caused by industrialization.
    USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
  • New York City tap water had been declining due to industrialization in the Catskills.
    Alexander Frech, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • The Seminary woods are a reminder of what the city looked like before industrialization.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • There are interests who want to see the industrialization of north Peoria and turn it into the next Deer Vally airpark.
    Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
  • The industrialization of this drink could be a boon for a struggling rural economy.
    Brandon D. Lundy, The Conversation, 30 June 2023
  • Most of them are human-made and are a product of poor urban planning and unrestrained industrialization in the modern age.
    Lindsey Reynolds, Treehugger, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Fort Worth leaders are poised to replace a truck lot in the city’s southeast with single-family homes, the latest step in a long-running campaign to undo industrialization in the area.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 June 2024
  • Vandalism and industrialization destroyed much of the cave and the land around it was used as a dump until recent efforts to reclaim the land and restore it to its natural beauty.
    Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The Asian giant followed the West’s pattern of early industrialization: grow quick and dirty and worry about the consequences later.
    Jack A. Goldstone, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2023
  • Threats of industrialization have loomed over this treasured ecosystem for decades.
    Elise Preston, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The weeks of back and forth on the proposal were the latest chapter in a yearslong grassroots effort to resist further industrialization across southeast Fort Worth.
    Jaime Moore-Carrillo, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The industrialization of the Vogue Ballroom community can be seen in a few different ways.
    Red Rodriguez, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • Alex: As Mark says, many of the problems in our food system date back to the industrialization of agriculture and the rise of the commodity crop—food grown not to be eaten by one community, but to be sold on the market.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Many of the photos shed light on industrialization's impact on nature.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Lithium and sunshine are abundant in the desert Southwest, and so the transition to green energy will likely bring a new level of industrialization to its landscape.
    Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021
  • The wars returned things to white, this time in an endless 4-by-4 square grid, while also bringing industrialization, standardization and the beginning of cheaper — and less durable — ways of building.
    Krystal Chang, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • Something that Amanda and I talked about when traveling was, at the end, when this dream of industrialization died in the ’80s when neoliberalism started to rise in the region, craft resisted.
    Rachel Gallaher, Robb Report, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Yet the Danes—and the growth of industrialization—eventually prevailed.
    Francine Russo, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The picture that emerged is of a government following an approach uncharted for a country of its scale: pursue green technologies in the midst of industrialization while leaving the fate of coal to the market.
    Time, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Across the global South, countries are calling on richer states to compensate them for the damage of climate change caused by centuries of industrialization in the North, but their requests have mostly been ignored.
    Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
  • The work of O’Keeffe and her contemporaries explored the social landscape that survived industrialization and two global wars.
    Austin Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2022

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