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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
Balkanize .
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Examples
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The "Balkanized" approach to regulation seems ludicrous, but then again, the British have a single watchdog in the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and that didn't stop the mess.
Jill Schlesinger: Wall Street Reform: Regulators and Lawmakers Prepare for Turf War 2009
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Author Todd Gitlin, a chronicler of the '60s, believes they have become "Balkanized," united less by a common culture than by the commodities they own.
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Decentralized sales-based profit and loss (P&L) is both strategically unmanageable and politically "Balkanized," strained by warlordism at even the lowest level of the organization.
Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Godzillas? The Phantom Threat of PRC Brands 2008
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That would mean he would have isolated himself in just the type of "Balkanized" country we don't want to be.
Latest Articles 2009
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Other living languages on our diagram could also be further broken down or, dare I say, Balkanized.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Other living languages on our diagram could also be further broken down or, dare I say, Balkanized.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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There is one way that these Balkanized subsidiaries help eBay right now — they shore up the shrinking revenue on the flagship e-commerce site, which fell 18 percent last quarter from the year-ago period.
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They have a broader aperture for, and are less hindered by rigid convention about group, skin color and other ways that had Balkanized previous generations.
Natalia Brzezinski: How 20-Somethings Will Shape The Future Natalia Brzezinski 2010
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Given the diversity of the group's affiliations -- representing the range, absent Hezbollah, of Lebanon's Balkanized political world -- it's not certain the vote would have been totally lopsided.
David Harris: A Lost Chance for Arab-Jewish Dialogue David Harris 2010
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A transcendent godlike artificial intelligence that governs time travel and space-operatically Balkanized all of humanity as a mode of self-defense?
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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