How to Use standardize in a Sentence

standardize

verb
  • He standardized procedures for the industry.
  • This standardizes the look across all assets.
    New Atlas, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Indeed, there are a few ways that the letters could be standardized.
    Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
  • Romero uses a standard ice cream scoop to speed things along and get the size standardized.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2025
  • Those are all proprietary, but those could be standardized over time.
    Andrew Webster, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Part of what’s helped standardize the space, Seville says, is money.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Anyone with a body knows that clothing sizes aren't standardized.
    Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 4 June 2017
  • Putting systems in place helps to standardize your practices.
    R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The instinct is to standardize on one platform.
    Mudit Singh, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The same thing will happen now if time is standardized uniformly.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 29 Dec. 2024
  • What’s more, there’s been a greater effort to standardize success metrics for the role.
    Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Now, for the first time, baseball is attempting to standardize its strike zone.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The question for leadership is no longer which system of record to standardize on.
    Andy Kohm, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Dot depth, size and distance are now all standardized for the fastest and accurate reading.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 May 2018
  • Casting molds found at the site demonstrate that artisans took care to standardize the coins’ shape and size.
    Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Start with a clear and detailed invoice Your invoice should be standardized and easy to read.
    Danielle Higley, CNBC, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Then the French started to standardize their muskets.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Efforts to simplify and standardize the process have stalled.
    Sidney Fussell, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The club serves as the sport’s governing body in Scotland and standardized the rules of play.
    Asuka Koda, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • With the pair at the helm, the goal was to standardize the superhero universe and kick-start a new epoch for the studio.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2025
  • And the draft would standardize a process for speaking at committee meetings.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Trzyna uploads the art, standardizing the look but keeping each one unique.
    Janice Neumann, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Only students in grades four, eight and 10 took the science standardized test.
    Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
  • Unicode has to vote on the proposal and then approve and standardize the emoji in a process that can take up to two years.
    Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The committee hasn’t met so many times during the same period since the process was standardized four decades ago.
    Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Therefore, look to standardize as much as possible.
    Diaz Nesamoney, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But manufacturers still want to make sure that rules are standardized across the country, and that prospect is still up in the air.
    Umair Irfan, Vox, 30 July 2019
  • Since they are not standardized or tested by the FDA, there are many unknowns.
    Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 14 June 2024
  • But the grieving process is a lifelong journey that is neither linear nor standardized from one person to the next.
    Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The bill aims to improve and standardize working conditions for the workers.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022

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