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In 2017, the Macks entered into a partnership with the Utah restaurant development company Four Foods Group to standardize their business operations and grow the brand nationally. — New York Times, "Hawaiian Food Is Flourishing … in Utah?," 23 Apr. 2018 It was started by three engineers from Apple and Xerox in 1987, with the goal of standardizing 16-bit characters for use in early computing. — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, "With This New Ballet Flat Emoji, Women Finally Have a Comfortable Digital Shoe," 9 Nov. 2018 Gaming experiences can be standardized in terms of events, timing, and intensity. — Rob Reid, Ars Technica, "Ars on your lunch break: Repairing your brain with video games," 10 Oct. 2018 The carrier is standardizing procedures at airports to speed up unloading and reloading planes. — Scott Mccartney, WSJ, "The Best and Worst U.S. Airlines of 2018," 16 Jan. 2019 The move may be of more interest to corporate deployments; an organization that has standardized on Outlook, for example, might want to remove the Mail and Calendar apps to reduce user confusion. — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, "Microsoft making more of the Windows 10 built-in apps removable," 18 Oct. 2018 Ifill and McGhee said Starbucks should standardize all of its interview protocols to eliminate any implicit bias and increase the number of racial and ethnic hires across all levels within the organization. — Sarah Whitten, USA TODAY, "NAACP to Starbucks: Don't let up on weeding out racial bias," 2 July 2018 In addition, Sears also helped standardize the use of drywall and asphalt shingles, which both brought down the cost of construction for the average buyer. — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, "How Sears Kit Homes changed housing," 16 Oct. 2018 The report also says there's room to cut costs on nuclear power plant buildout by standardizing the process more thoroughly. — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, "Mapping what it would take for a renaissance for nuclear energy," 7 Sep. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'standardize.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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