How to Use decentralization in a Sentence

decentralization

noun
  • In this case, is decentralization tied in any way to the blockchain?
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
  • This is the core of crypto’s decentralization concept—one that could take on big banks and big tech.
    — Laura Shin, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
  • In practice, full decentralization has been hard to achieve and even has some drawbacks.
    — Alex Tapscott, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Tech news has been featuring talk of decentralization for some time now.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • Two, Bluesky should lean into decentralization as a tool to grow the user base.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • Because of the decentralization of the creative process over the last 40 years.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That taught her to allow decentralization and let business subunits breathe.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2021
  • The results of British decentralization have been at best uneven, and at worst harmful.
    — Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • So, while the rhetoric is about decentralization of finance, the real control may remain in the hands of a select few.
    — Vinamrata Chaturvedi, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In the new age of decentralization, no single company should be the name-keeper of this next frontier.
    — On Marketing, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • How blockchain and NFTs and decentralization will lead to new forms of hacktivism.
    — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Despite many movements for tech decentralization, the dragon’s hoard of gold has kept growing.
    — WIRED, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The decentralization of artist-to-fan relationships seems to be the next major trend in music.
    — Yola Robert, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Even overcoming these trade-offs inherent in decentralization, people may still not want to use these apps.
    — Klint Finley, WIRED, 1 June 2017
  • To be sure, some types of trials and diseases are appropriate for full decentralization.
    — Kent Thoelke, STAT, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Key to the project is its eventual and complete decentralization, in part to ensure its long-term existence.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 16 Feb. 2022
  • By contrast, the rule in the United States is decentralization.
    — John Yoo, National Review, 23 June 2024
  • Despite short-run growing pains, decentralization will be more stable and prices will be more informative about value in the long run.
    — Raghav Warrier, National Review, 18 June 2021
  • Barkin stressed the importance of decentralization and giving both creators and fans a stake in IP.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Chelsea Manning was extolling the virtues of decentralization.
    — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • The Twitter co-founder is a firm believer in the decentralization of social media.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 14 June 2023
  • State and federal agencies certainly don’t care about decentralization, at least to the same degree as the crypto crowd.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The natural decentralization and lack of oversight by the league ensures that there is no record when teams violate rules, Lasker said.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
  • But there are no indications that the Iraqi government will go along with that degree of decentralization.
    — Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt and Michael R. Gordon, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2016
  • Sustained brand lift from A-list celebrity endorsement has faded over the years with the decentralization of media.
    — Jimmy Decicco, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2021
  • The trend of decentralization behind many of the new innovations can also be used by VCs.
    — Dr Guenther Dobrauz-Saldapenna, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Their examples show how brands can enter the world of NFTs, the blockchain, and decentralization.
    — Cathy Hackl, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Jansa in a speech listed the economy, fight against corruption and red tape, and decentralization as key goals of the future government.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • The chief lesson is that peace is attainable by decentralization of powers and the right qualities of leadership.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 14 June 2018
  • Payment comes in the form of cryptocurrency, which has the advantage of decentralization.
    — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2022

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