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 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
Ade was one of 283 new international members representing 59 countries who were invited this year to join the academy in a concerted push to further diversify and globalize the nearly 90-year-old institution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2016
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
Scientists broadly agree that the globalized weather impacts of El Nino stack on top of climate change -- exacerbating rainfall in some places, drought and heat in others.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Julian Master is an American photographer who documents our globalized, connected public life and the sometimes strange juxtapositions it creates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
He prefigured today’s globalized music economy long before it had language for itself, though his influence has often been oddly glossed over.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
But in a globalized economy, shopping for 100% American-made goods is virtually impossible.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 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
It exists as an economic qualifier and becomes a tool for building up cultural influence in a globalizing medium.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
Mr. Cook delivered the iPhone form factor from scratch by globalizing supply chains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
Ironically, scholars were constructing this Black canon just as literary studies was deconstructing the canon of Western literature as a whole: globalizing it, feminizing it, queering it, racially diversifying it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 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
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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