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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The partnership is the latest in Disney’s effort to further globalize its streaming service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 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
Her enduring and pioneering presence in South Korea’s pop scene helped pave the way for future K-pop groups to globalize with multiethnic lineups.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024
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
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
According to the study’s authors, streamers hoping to compete in a fast-paced, globalized market should increase their diversity efforts in light of these results.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
Research from the pandemic finds that globalized supply chains performed better and adjusted faster than nationalized ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
In the late 20th century, as globalized trade patterns grew, U.S. farmers struggled with agricultural prices below their production costs.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 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
The French bank appointed former Morgan Stanley executive Kunal Maini as the co-head of Global Macro - Americas and he will be responsible for globalizing the US Rates franchise.
From Reuters ● Dec. 7, 2022
It scrutinizes fast food step by step and bite by bite, all the corporatizing, globalizing and industrializing of these once family-scale neighborhood businesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2022
Even though China actually had the biggest economy in the world in the eighteenth century, it was Western countries, companies, and explorers who were doing most of the globalizing and shaping of the system.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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