industrialize
verb
in·dus·tri·al·ize
in-ˈdə-strē-ə-ˌlīz 
industrialized; industrializing
: to make industrial
industrialize an agricultural region
: to become industrial
Examples of industrialize in a Sentence
The government hopes to industrialize some of the agricultural regions.
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But as ports industrialized, seagrass was dismissed as a visual blight.
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Richard Morgan,
Time,
29 June 2026
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As the decades passed, the crowding and filth in the rapidly growing cities in the industrializing nations of Europe and North America created perfect conditions to fuel epidemic outbreaks that could steal the lives of those of any age or rank, but were most dangerous for the very young.
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Richard Morgan,
Time,
29 June 2026
Building a factory around battery reuse The Moment Energy’s Megfactory 1 aims to industrialize a process that has largely remained limited to smaller projects.
—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
28 June 2026
Starbucks eventually industrialized this insight, scaling the third place into a global infrastructure for temporary belonging.
—
Peter Su,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
As the decades passed, the crowding and filth in the rapidly growing cities in the industrializing nations of Europe and North America created perfect conditions to fuel epidemic outbreaks that could steal the lives of those of any age or rank, but were most dangerous for the very young.
—
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for industrialize
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industrialize
verb
in·dus·tri·al·ize
in-ˈdəs-trē-ə-ˌlīz
industrialized; industrializing
: to make or become industrial
industrialize an agricultural region
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