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
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
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
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
Now, Amazon is shifting toward a more regionalized delivery network and expanding its footprint again.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Some leagues such as the KingCo Conference, which is aiming for a March 1 return to practice, are finalizing safety protocols and contemplating regionalizing competitions instead of dividing into the traditional Class 4A/3A/2A tiers.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2021
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
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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