How to Use globalize in a Sentence

globalize

verb
Definition of globalizenext
  • Benioff, Weiss and Woo have globalized the story, shifting much of the action to London, with a multiethnic cast.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Duty-Free Receipt Luxury was globalized by one man inspired to use a centuries-old maritime loophole to create a new business.
    — The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But part of it was the sense that the world as a whole had globalized very rapidly.
    — NBC News, 3 June 2018
  • The Thai tycoons’ bid to globalize is in a league of its own.
    — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2019
  • There’s some dispute over whether in-game action would help the league globalize the game.
    — Albert Breer, SI.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Oman is an unlikely place to lead the race to globalize fracking.
    — Sarah Kent, WSJ, 19 June 2018
  • In an attempt to globalize his brand, in the style Armani had achieved in Italy, Oldfield followed the footsteps of many of his design peers.
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Oct. 2022
  • This is only a problem when a service is globalized, built to work for billions of people all at once.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2017
  • Some of it might be the happy result of ever-globalizing TV options.
    — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 26 June 2018
  • Palmer, a magnetic and genial golfer, brought sports into the modern mercantile era and helped globalize the game.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2016
  • At the same time, the experiment with globalizing NATO to fight global terror cannot quite be said to have been a success.
    — James Poulos, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2017
  • The new song is a testament to Peso Pluma’s efforts to continue globalizing the genre.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Much of the world has struggled through the transition of rural-to-urban-to-globalized, but Koreans seem to have done it on fast-forward, all while the threat of destruction from the North has loomed.
    — Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 16 Feb. 2020
  • But in taking the merits of immigration for granted, the urban, the global and the globalized have ceded ground to their opponents.
    — Bilal Qureshi, Washington Post, 21 June 2019
  • One was the development of the jpeg, expediting and globalizing the viewing of work, compared to the method of sending physical slides via post.
    — Kyle Brazzel, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2017
  • The song was one of the few regional hits that broke records this year by entering the top 10 in singles charts across the world, globalizing the evolving sounds coming from young, Mexican-American artists.
    — Thania Garcia, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
  • And so the march toward the today’s urban, globalized, social world begins in ancient Mesopotamia and environs more than 7,000 years ago, when the good life consisted of wine, barley, goats, and a few neighbors.
    — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Since then, the industry has globalized, bypassing doctors and aiming straight for curious and worried consumers—to the tune of $1.56 billion last year.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 29 July 2023
  • But economists and mental health experts say a common thread is the changes unleashed by a globalizing economy.
    — Jacqueline Williams, New York Times, 20 May 2018
  • Ballroom is a reflection of the anthology of being Black; the culture produced by people who have been globalized through slavery.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
  • Another factor that makes the current crisis different from the last one is the degree to which big companies have globalized their operations, says Holtzer, the Weil lawyer.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2020
  • This is the danger of this conflict: globalizing in a way that’s going to lead not just Jews to feel more vulnerable, but also Palestinians and Muslims in general.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • But the Mistral buy might also portend a future Russian arms industry that is truly globalized, and thus more efficient.
    — David Axe, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2009
  • These are the instruments of a self-consciously forward-looking, globalizing age.
    — Paul A. Kramer, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Jenkins: Energy systems became globalized in the middle of the 20th century and then encountered global supply shocks, like the oil embargoes of the ’70s.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia has been a trailblazer in globalizing state propaganda.
    — chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • In what feels like a centuries-long plot for world domination, species of ants living in Central and South America have spread across the planet, globalizing their tiny-but-mighty societies alongside our own.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2024
  • So, the only watertight solution is to increase global supply and globalize it.
    — Seth Berkley, Scientific American, 23 June 2021
  • In an interview with Billboard Español, Hernández spoke about the key to their longevity, his opinion on the new artists who are globalizing música mexicana, their return to Spain and upcoming projects.
    — Tere Aguilera, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Uncle Waffles, credited for helping globalize South African music, dazzled the crowd with her signature amapiano vibes and dance moves.
    — Emanuel Okusanya, Variety, 30 June 2023

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