democratizing

verb

present participle of democratize
as in standardizing

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  1. standardizing
  2. normalizing
  3. homogenizing
  4. equalizing
  5. regularizing
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  • By standardizing component layouts, equipment integration, and vendor specifications, the company replicates full production lines without requiring site-specific engineering overhauls.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026
  • Recycling Powerhouse plans to address this by industrializing, standardizing and scaling textile recycling through a global network of textile recycling plants that can convert post- and pre-consumer textile waste into recycled yarns.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 21 July 2026
Definition of standardizing
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  • There’s high-density user engagement with retailers such as Poshmark and Etsy boasting tens of millions of active users, thereby officially normalizing secondary apparel consumption into mainstream digital retail.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
  • The market has already been moving in that direction, with inventory levels gradually normalizing.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 19 July 2026
Definition of normalizing
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  • Various claims are made that since generative AI is based on statistically homogenizing human knowledge, the result will be that humans will follow suit.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The first book was published the same year as Serial debuted, kicking off our burgeoning obsession with true crime and our tendency to romanticize the male perpetrators while often homogenizing their overwhelmingly female victims into cautionary tales.
    — Scarlett Harris, Time, 11 June 2026
Definition of homogenizing
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  • The irrepressible Albiceleste overcame a 1-0 deficit against England in Wednesday’s semifinal, equalizing in the 85th minute and knocking in a go-ahead goal in extra time to send Argentina to its second consecutive World Cup final.
    — Sara Germano, Sportico.com, 15 July 2026
  • Both teams went back-and-forth, up-and-down the pitch, resulting in nothing until Switzerland broke through in the 67th minute on a Dan Ndoye equalizing goal.
    — Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of equalizing
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  • Driven by blunt ideology rather than the reality of balancing harms, Font and Putnam-Hornstein advance a flawed and damaging premise that child safety requires normalizing and regularizing family separation.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
  • In her conversations with small-business owners, Higgins learned that some have been forced to reduce staff or lay off employees because several of their workers were TPS beneficiaries or were in the process of regularizing their paperwork.
    — Sarah Moreno, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
Definition of regularizing
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