regionalize
Americanverb (used with or without object)
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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
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
They’re going to regionalize the officials and do everything they can to keep them from traveling on airplanes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2020
By mid-June, the group reached consensus on the last big points, according to Billig: how to regionalize school-worker pay, and details on the changes to tax levies.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2017
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
What began on New Year’s Eve in 1907 as a promotional stunt for the New York Times has multiplied and regionalized.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2023
At the same time, Amazon is switching to a more regionalized fulfillment network focused on keeping products close to customers.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2023
The rules are fairly accommodating, in order for the events to field more teams in a sport that is highly regionalized.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
Supporters say regionalizing the grid would make it easier and cheaper to deploy renewable energy across the western United States.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 19, 2018
This process of regionalizing investment and production, which largely dispenses with Europe and America, has now been accelerated by China’s rise as a manufacturing power.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2018
The report suggested the town, which then had 8,100 residents and now has 9,000, consider increasing its resident state trooper program or regionalizing police services in cooperation with neighboring towns such as Easton and Weston.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 26, 2017
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
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