as in to organize
to make agree with a single established standard or model the plan is to standardize the test for reading comprehension so that we can see how students across the state compare

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Recent Examples of standardize FilmLA, in coordination with City Council, should also be tasked with standardizing conditions across districts and making clear commitments so that new special conditions are rarely needed. Peter White, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025 Scannapieco also highlights the challenges in standardizing tongue examination in a clinical or research setting. Eve Lu, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2025 The tools promise to speed up iteration, standardize testing, unify training with on-robot inference, and help robots transfer skills more safely from simulation to the real world. Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025 In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, standardizing the length of daylight saving time. Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for standardize
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  • In 2024, his mother, Idit Ohel, organized a concert for him on the Gaza border.
    Itay Stern, NPR, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The protests are organized by progressive organization Indivisible, with cities having their own branch.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • Short investments in manager training can change that, equipping them with tools to normalize recovery and resilience.
    Elan Gepner-Dales, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • This feels more important than ever in a world that tries to normalize genocide and climate catastrophe as the inevitable outcome of ongoing and increasingly authoritarian imperialist projects.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Last year, thanks, in part, to funding from Best Friends, OTAT-West Texas formalized partnerships with six shelters spread across an area the size of South Carolina.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has promised to help the soybean farmers, at one point claiming that money from tariffs would be used to assist them financially, but no such proposal had been formalized as of Tuesday.
    Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
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  • The ocean regulates our climate, supports global trade, and feeds communities.
    Olivier Wenden, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • American laws aren’t equipped to deal with the fast-moving ambitions of CEO Elon Musk, and Washington doesn’t seem in a hurry to regulate his company.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • Advertisement The trauma and alienation experienced by those who endured military occupation at our nation’s founding suggests the peril of regularizing military rule in American cities today.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • There are strategies for regularizing time, all of which are familiar.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
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  • The results come at a time when thousands of schools are opting to integrate financial skills into their curriculum, while at the same time, reading levels among students have hit all time lows.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond employment, Wilson Administration officials re-segregated bathrooms, lunchrooms, and workspaces in federal buildings that had been integrated since the end of the Civil War.
    Time, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • But at the heart of this challenge lies the question of how best to coordinate global search efforts for people who don’t want to be found.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The protests are all loosely coordinated, happening almost organically online rather than organized and promoted by traditional activist groups or political institutions.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Standardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardize. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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