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
Labor shortages continue, for instance, and the rush to regionalize supply chains has increased demand for commodities in many parts of the world.
From Reuters ● May 18, 2023
“Let’s throw three more Daytons in, regionalize it up and play it out, let some more kids get in there,” Brey said.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 12, 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
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
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
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
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
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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