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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as decentrated.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of decenter.

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Examples

  • The state's online infrastructure was simply ill-equipped to undermine this kind of decentered audience-generated citizen news production that anchored what is now known as the "Twitter Revolution."

    Adel Iskandar: New Media and Iran's Revolutionary Impulse Adel Iskandar 2011

  • The state's online infrastructure was simply ill-equipped to undermine this kind of decentered audience-generated citizen news production that anchored what is now known as the "Twitter Revolution."

    Adel Iskandar: New Media and Iran's Revolutionary Impulse Adel Iskandar 2011

  • The state's online infrastructure was simply ill-equipped to undermine this kind of decentered audience-generated citizen news production that anchored what is now known as the "Twitter Revolution."

    Adel Iskandar: New Media and Iran's Revolutionary Impulse Adel Iskandar 2011

  • The state's online infrastructure was simply ill-equipped to undermine this kind of decentered audience-generated citizen news production that anchored what is now known as the "Twitter Revolution."

    Adel Iskandar: New Media and Iran's Revolutionary Impulse Adel Iskandar 2011

  • 'decentered' setup, and such reallocations are best suited for more mature companies.

    HBS Working Knowledge 2009

  • In comments published on the Holberg Prize website, she described her work as "decentered" and "pluralistic" history, "where what happens in a woman's workshop or a villager's hut or at

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • In these situations I suspect I have neither avoided a fallacy, nor decentered subjectivity.

    Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008

  • You astutely problematize decentered-ness but you overlook that your ideology is always already overdetermined.

    Shlomo-Bobo-Flabbo-ism (plus Addendum) EAGEAGEAG 2010

  • It was the society that raised him that left him decentered and awash in the middle of an America he couldn't deal with; it wasn't money or politics or even beliefs that drove him to do what he did, but merely the feeling of being a "little man" in a world where, even as a "big man" he couldn't get any recognition.

    Nicolas Niarchos: Lennon's Last Days Remembered Nicolas Niarchos 2010

  • The decentered immortality that Nietzsche attributes to the man of "superior culture" — who preserves in his own body fragments of a vanished past — closely resembles the immortality that Walter Pater, for instance, famously attributed to La Gioconda:

    Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008

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