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centralized

[sen-truh-lahyzd] / ˈsɛn trəˌlaɪzd /


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The experiments supported a key idea: highly complex coordination does not require advanced intelligence or centralized control.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

Live offers a more centralized, campus-style setting, with venues and event spaces clustered together.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Here is a possible benign outcome: In five years, Europe emerges better prepared to defend itself, with deeper capital markets thanks to more centralized fiscal policy and eurobond issuance.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 10, 2026

Many Kurds, Azeris and other ethnic minorities—who make up close to half of Iran’s population—distrust Pahlavi because of his father’s focus on centralized control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Still a third type of answer to Yali invokes the supposed importance of lowland river valleys in dry climates, where highly productive agriculture depended on large-scale irrigation systems that in turn required centralized bureaucracies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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