How to Use internationalize in a Sentence

internationalize

verb
  • The plan to break up the business marks a shift away from France as the mogul pushes to internationalize his media assets.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 22 July 2024
  • Zhou is best known for his program to internationalize the renminbi.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2017
  • One of Xi's genuine reform wins has been internationalizing the yuan.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
  • This series was part of Major League Baseball’s push to internationalize the sport.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2018
  • When ByteDance tried to internationalize one of its short video products, the first former employee recalled, he was called in to consult.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Beijing’s push to internationalize the yuan is motivated by more than vanity.
    — Brook Larmer, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Manipulating the exchange rate would set back efforts to internationalize the yuan.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • One good that streaming can, and to an extent has, accomplished is to internationalize the TV audience.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 2 July 2019
  • Still, Beijing has made tentative efforts to internationalize the yuan.
    — Mike Bird, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Particularly, when firms try to internationalize this is a tricky issue to consider.
    — Christian Stadler, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • King’s last words to him were about the need to institutionalize and internationalize the nonviolence movement.
    — ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • King's last words to him were about the need to institutionalize and internationalize the nonviolence movement.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The idea is to more closely tie China’s financial system with the global market, in part by using Shenzhen as a launch pad for plans to internationalize the yuan.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 13 Oct. 2020
  • The toll of internationalizing the cigarette will be unthinkable.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • At Bocom, China’s fifth-largest bank by assets, Peng’s efforts to internationalize went slowly.
    — Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The sharing of the Rousseau technology marks the most brazen attempt to date to internationalize Europe’s populist movements.
    — Lori Hinnant, The Seattle Times, 19 Feb. 2019
  • For all the heated discussion about internationalizing China’s currency, a real role for the yuan in global finance remains a pipe dream.
    — Mike Bird, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • India’s efforts to internationalize the rupee have stalled following the failure of its negotiations to use it to trade with Russia.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 May 2023
  • That investment has put Chinese clean technology companies in a place to internationalize.
    — Justin Worland, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
  • As productions became more expensive to mount, the theater industry was eager to internationalize its audience.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In recent years, Chinese universities have worked to internationalize their course offerings and attract more foreign students.
    — Douglas Belkin, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Since Russia invaded the country, social media has helped Ukrainians internationalize their plight.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2022
  • After the surge in economic growth of the mid-nineteenth century, the world internationalized the gold standard to create a common framework for international payments.
    — Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • His response, to internationalize his conflict with Israel and to capitalize on his diplomatic relationships abroad, boosted his standing at home and pushed peace further away.
    — Adam Rubenstein, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
  • His music fused African rhythms with jazz, soul, funk, rumba, disco and hip hop, and internationalized the music of Africa while inspiring many other major artists during a career that lasted more than six decades.
    — CBS News, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Roosevelt understood that internationalizing the New Deal meant that people around the world could all benefit from a globalizing economy.
    — Katherine Tai, Foreign Affairs, 9 Jan. 2025
  • There’s a recurring tendency of American liberalism, for better and for worse, to internationalize its own causes with lofty language and universal values.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The acquisition comes as the global demand for American football grows as the sport internationalizes with NFL games now routinely played abroad.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, the party has sought to internationalize the Chinese higher education system by recruiting foreign students and scholars.
    — Maria Repnikova, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
  • Three, internationalizing the yuan is arguably Xi’s biggest economic reform success since 2012.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

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