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Boeing had decentralized its supply chain by selling off some of its component manufacturing operations, including Wichita, Kan.-based Spirit AeroSystems, where 737 fuselages are built before being shipped to Renton for assembly.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024

The Freeh report also said school had "decentralized and uneven" oversight of compliance issues - laws, regulations, policies and procedures - as required by the NCAA.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 23, 2012

Political power had decentralized, the relatively prosperous economy was faltering, and old tensions began to rise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hoover, the centralized and responsible head, had decentralized food administration right down to each one of us.

From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)