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
Use that data to turn the dial on leadership behaviors, standardize your accountability metrics, and build a workplace culture where people are treated as your primary investment.
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Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Since the trunks were home to a royal’s most beloved items, they were standardized, numbers, and inventoried, too, to ensure nothing was left behind or lost.
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Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
11 June 2026
Siniscalchi hopes other scientists will adopt the scoring system to help standardize and accelerate research on pawedness in dogs.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
Bottles could be standardized by category, which would facilitate recycling of unbroken glass containers.
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Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for standardize
Julie Kratz,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
Since the trunks were home to a royal’s most beloved items, they were standardized, numbers, and inventoried, too, to ensure nothing was left behind or lost.
—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
11 June 2026
Siniscalchi hopes other scientists will adopt the scoring system to help standardize and accelerate research on pawedness in dogs.
—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
Bottles could be standardized by category, which would facilitate recycling of unbroken glass containers.
—
Chicago Tribune,
6 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for standardize
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Their fix is to let the same model that does the reasoning also curate the knowledge, stored as human-readable notes and organized hierarchically with provenance and a lifecycle so stale plays decay rather than calcify.
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Where previous generations of artists organized themselves into schools, collectives, and cooperatives, their future counterparts will work alone or, if together, then polyphonously, their different voices kept distinctly identifiable, like family members at a Thanksgiving dinner discussion.
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Suggesting that the media and fashion industries promote extremely thin female bodies and lean, muscular male physiques, the researchers concluded that has normalized unsafe body sizes.
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The stock remains in limbo as the lock-in effect and a strategy shift towards the Large Pro segment raise questions about EPS power and where the multiple should normalize.
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Notion, for example, has long credited its global community of users with driving growth and has hired community advocates who emerged directly from those user groups to help formalize that work.
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Bruss and colleagues identified a physically motivated alternative that formalizes system composition and gives rise to a class of theories that can be formulated with real numbers and yet are indistinguishable from standard quantum mechanics, even at the experimental level.
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Progressives cite its emphasis on the dignity of work and workers, and on the need for government to regulate working conditions that threaten this dignity.
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Meanwhile, even some PBM critics question whether states can effectively regulate them.
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This is not the first time Spain has opted to regularize its undocumented population.
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By that time, Cuba and Argentina were the only two formal members, apart from Venezuela, that had regularized their financial situation (investment on shares) at the board of teleSUR (in December 2011 and May 2012, respectively).
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Over time, those journals also integrated historical studies into their searchable online archives.
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Widely considered conceptually comparable to the S-300 and S-400 families, the HQ-9B can engage aircraft, cruise missiles, and certain ballistic missile threats while integrating with China’s broader air defense architecture.
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The State Department has already mobilized a disaster assistance team and task force to deliver and coordinate critical assistance to Venezuelans, including search and rescue teams, medical supplies, and humanitarian resources, according to senior State Department official Jeremy Lewin.
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United Nations emergency relief chief, Tom Fletcher, said the humanitarian affairs office was coordinating the deployment of international urban search-and-rescue teams.
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“Standardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardize. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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