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regionalize

American  
[ree-juh-nl-ahyz] / ˈri dʒə nlˌaɪz /
especially British, regionalise

verb (used with or without object)

regionalized, regionalizing
  1. to separate into or arrange by regions.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of regionalize

First recorded in 1920–25; regional + -ize

Example Sentences

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“The U.S. has signalled a four- to five-week campaign, Iran is seeking to regionalize the conflict and the crucial Strait of Hormuz chokepoint is effectively shut,” Tradu.com’s Nikos Tzabouras says in an email.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 5, 2026

Amazon said this week its plan to regionalize its warehouse network had paid off.

From Seattle Times Feb. 1, 2024

In many ways it’s a diminution, a term — like “Southern writer” — that’s meant to regionalize and reduce.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 14, 2022

By further concentrating power in the South, it will further regionalize a sport that hasn’t felt truly national since USC was building a mini-dynasty in the mid-aughts.

From Slate Jul. 26, 2021

Apart from Arizona, he said Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington State were also starting to regionalize cardiac arrest care.

From Reuters Aug. 27, 2010

That’s despite several encouraging demand drivers, he says, citing manufacturing onshoring, infrastructure program funding, lower interest rates and increasingly regionalized supply chains in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

Around twelve years ago, Pasca had just developed a way to turn stem cells into three-dimensional tissues that would later be known as regionalized neural organoids.

From Science Daily Oct. 18, 2025

“It would plunge Europe into essentially a regionalized Ice Age, while leaving the rest of the world on its continued warming path,” Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 26, 2024

In 2018, Juventus took advantage of a change in Italian soccer’s rules and started to field a youth team, now rebranded as Juventus Next Gen, in the country’s regionalized third tier.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2024

The research — and the public concerns — come as Amazon plans to expand its warehouse network and moves toward a regionalized model to speed up deliveries by storing products closer to customers’ homes.

From Seattle Times Dec. 20, 2023

The Sounders haven’t played New York City since July 2019 due to the coronavirus pandemic and the league regionalizing games until this season.

From Seattle Times Apr. 5, 2022

Opposition and more than a little hysteria centers on two issues: downgrading trauma designations at Kingsport and Bristol, and, regionalizing neonatal intensive care.

From Washington Times Dec. 5, 2018

Cal-ISO spokeswoman Anne Gonzales said regionalizing the grid operator would improve management of all electricity resources in California and other Western states.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2017

Going forward, Woods hopes to establish more partnerships with minor league baseball teams like the Brooklyn model, add more sponsors and look at regionalizing to reduce the costs of air travel.

From Forbes Dec. 4, 2014

Faced with tight budgets, many communities across the country are considering regionalizing their police departments, along with other services like firefighting, libraries and schools.

From New York Times Sep. 29, 2012

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