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
Amazon said this week its plan to regionalize its warehouse network had paid off.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
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
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
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
The school has also regionalized nonconference schedules as much as possible, with the men’s basketball team pulling out of the CBS Sports Classic to reduce travel and increase scheduling flexibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
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 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in regionalized air pollution across the globe to storm activity going both up and down.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
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
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
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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