How to Use internationalize in a Sentence
internationalize
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This series was part of Major League Baseball’s push to internationalize the sport.
—New York Times, 5 May 2018
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When ByteDance tried to internationalize one of its short video products, the first former employee recalled, he was called in to consult.
—Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
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The idea is to more closely tie China’s financial system with the global market, in part by using Shenzhen as a launch pad for plans to internationalize the yuan.
—Mary Hui, Quartz, 13 Oct. 2020
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One good that streaming can, and to an extent has, accomplished is to internationalize the TV audience.
—Julie Muncy, WIRED, 2 July 2019
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Zhou is best known for his program to internationalize the renminbi.
—Alan Murray, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2017
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The sharing of the Rousseau technology marks the most brazen attempt to date to internationalize Europe’s populist movements.
—Lori Hinnant, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
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His music fused African rhythms with jazz, soul, funk, rumba, disco and hip hop, and internationalized the music of Africa while inspiring many other major artists during a career that lasted more than six decades.
—CBS News, 4 Apr. 2020
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India’s efforts to internationalize the rupee have stalled following the failure of its negotiations to use it to trade with Russia.
—Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
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For all the heated discussion about internationalizing China’s currency, a real role for the yuan in global finance remains a pipe dream.
—Mike Bird, WSJ, 27 June 2019
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Yet Palestinians have sought to internationalize their plight precisely because they are stuck between a dead Oslo process and a vision for a one-state solution directly at odds with many Israelis’ idea of a Jewish state.
—David Mednicoff, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2021
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At Bocom, China’s fifth-largest bank by assets, Peng’s efforts to internationalize went slowly.
—Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
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Still, Beijing has made tentative efforts to internationalize the yuan.
—Mike Bird, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
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After the surge in economic growth of the mid-nineteenth century, the world internationalized the gold standard to create a common framework for international payments.
—Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
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Beijing’s push to internationalize the yuan is motivated by more than vanity.
—Brook Larmer, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
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The toll of internationalizing the cigarette will be unthinkable.
—Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
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His response, to internationalize his conflict with Israel and to capitalize on his diplomatic relationships abroad, boosted his standing at home and pushed peace further away.
—Adam Rubenstein, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
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Particularly, when firms try to internationalize this is a tricky issue to consider.
—Christian Stadler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
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With three successive non-Italian popes, Navarro-Valls helped lead a quiet revolution to internationalize the Vatican.
—Washington Post, 5 July 2017
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Since Russia invaded the country, social media has helped Ukrainians internationalize their plight.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2022
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In recent years, Chinese universities have worked to internationalize their course offerings and attract more foreign students.
—Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2017
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While Pakistan is eager to accept the president's entree into the matter to internationalize negotiations, India has rebuffed the offer and wants to keep Kashmir as a bilateral issue.
—Jordyn Phelps, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2020
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There’s a recurring tendency of American liberalism, for better and for worse, to internationalize its own causes with lofty language and universal values.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2022
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For refusing to curb your enthusiasm. Roger Goodell: For trying to internationalize a game that can’t be internationalized.
—Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Nov. 2022
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As productions became more expensive to mount, the theater industry was eager to internationalize its audience.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
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The difficulty is that globalization is not a recent phenomenon; nation-states have always had to reckon with the internationalizing tendencies of capitalism, technological change, and advanced communications.
—Kevin Passmore, Slate Magazine, 13 Apr. 2017
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