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Recent Examples of normalize Besides, learning more about the mundanity of air travel can normalize it in a way that helps. Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025 Trump’s administration has normalized the extraordinary step of withholding federal money to pressure major academic institutions to comply with the president’s political agenda and to influence campus policy. Michael Casey, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025 As selfishness is normalized, calling people out for their bad behavior has become more fraught. Shannon Doyne, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 All signs point to trajectories like Max's becoming not just normalized, but bankable, and art clearly matters less than cash in that equation. Sheldon Pearce, NPR, 8 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for normalize

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“Normalize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normalize. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

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