globalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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globalizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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globalized,
past participle, past
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globalizing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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globalizesimple
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globalizessimple
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have globalizedperfect
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has globalizedperfect
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am globalizingprogressive
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are globalizingprogressive
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is globalizingprogressive
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have been globalizingperfect progressive
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has been globalizingperfect progressive
Past
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globalizedsimple
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had globalizedperfect
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was globalizingprogressive
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were globalizingprogressive
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had been globalizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of globalize
Vocabulary lists containing globalize
Example Sentences
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For the NFL, the blowback was a calculated risk as the league makes a push to globalize its fan base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026
The U.S. didn’t globalize primarily by exporting products.
From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026
Driving the shift, in part, is a push among investors and shareholder groups to globalize corporate standards in managing risks to a company’s reputation or financial performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2025
It later mentions the new entity’s plan to create financial returns, “including through targeted mergers and acquisitions to globalize the sport.”
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
The first show in the United States in decades devoted to postwar Indian painting continues a welcome, belated effort in Western museums to globalize art history after 1945.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2018
As much as anything, “My Girlfriend’s Wedding” globalizes a quotation attributed to the screenwriter Bob Schneider: Love is when two people who care for each other get confused.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
As television globalizes and cable options proliferate, Seinfeld’s cult status has allowed it to make a few new inroads into international markets.
From The Verge ● Jun. 24, 2015
As television globalizes, we’ve come to recognize the characteristics of the British cop show, the Canadian cop show and the Scandinavian cop show.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2014
We find great value and opportunity over the long term for this company, as they continue to improve and modernize their fleets, which they, in turn, lease primarily internationally as the world globalizes and grows.
From Forbes ● Aug. 26, 2014
As the production of seafood has become more globalized, its supply chains have stretched longer, making it tougher for consumers and grocers to know whether it was harvested sustainably or legally.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Instead, shipping taxes show up as increased insurance costs and longer routes, which compound costs across globalized supply chains.
From Barron's ● May 22, 2026
But in a globalized economy, shopping for 100% American-made goods is virtually impossible.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2025
Both sides love to hate “globalism” — and, of course, the globalists who globalized it.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2025
A bachelor’s degree, not a year or two of courses, tends to determine a person’s place in today’s globalized, computerized economy.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
Mr. Cook delivered the iPhone form factor from scratch by globalizing supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Netflix’s Drive to Survive series has proved similarly transformational for another rapidly globalizing sport: Formula 1.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2023
That Oscar-winning popular hit spun a much more upbeat story about a young man escaping poverty and realizing his destiny against the backdrop of a rapidly globalizing India.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2021
The United States is the first market where the company is focusing on globalizing supply, Caplan said, but Alibaba has a “very clear approach to other markets.”
From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2019
When I said earlier that this era of Globalization 3.0 is about individuals globalizing themselves, that was largely made possible by the Apple and Windows-enabled IBM PCs and their many clones.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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