as in standardized
to make agree with a single established standard or model
English spelling wasn't normalized until printed books became common
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Recent Examples of normalized
The good news is these numbers are being brought out into the open instead of being normalized.
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Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Some suggested that it should be normalized to offload your guns to a friend while going through a traumatic experience.
—Grace Byron, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Each age group is divided into five groups, based on AI exposure, and normalized to 1 in October 2022—roughly when popular generative AI tools became available to the public.
—Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
Tattoo culture has in many other ways been normalized and gentrified over the past few decades.
—John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
After China and Vietnam normalized their relationship in 1991, the countries took steps to resolve border discrepancies, some of which dated back to the nineteenth century.
—David C. Kang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2025
The agreement established diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab states, starting with the UAE and Bahrain, its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member, and marked the first time any Arab state had normalized relations with Israel since Jordan in 1994.
—Monica Marks, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
By showing normalized efficiency translating into millions in annual savings at scale, and aligning with DOE and IRA targets, the company has positioned itself as a serious contender in the green hydrogen race.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
These aren’t random acts of violence—they’re the inevitable endpoint of a culture that has normalized dehumanizing those who express perspectives that differ from our own.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Some suggested that it should be normalized to offload your guns to a friend while going through a traumatic experience.
—Grace Byron, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Each age group is divided into five groups, based on AI exposure, and normalized to 1 in October 2022—roughly when popular generative AI tools became available to the public.
—Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 24 Sep. 2025
Tattoo culture has in many other ways been normalized and gentrified over the past few decades.
—John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025
After China and Vietnam normalized their relationship in 1991, the countries took steps to resolve border discrepancies, some of which dated back to the nineteenth century.
—David C. Kang, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2025
The agreement established diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab states, starting with the UAE and Bahrain, its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member, and marked the first time any Arab state had normalized relations with Israel since Jordan in 1994.
—Monica Marks, Time, 19 Sep. 2025
By showing normalized efficiency translating into millions in annual savings at scale, and aligning with DOE and IRA targets, the company has positioned itself as a serious contender in the green hydrogen race.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 17 Sep. 2025
These aren’t random acts of violence—they’re the inevitable endpoint of a culture that has normalized dehumanizing those who express perspectives that differ from our own.
—Margie Warrell, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for normalized
standardized
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Since cybersecurity and compliance standards are uniform across all of Thomson Reuters, acquired startups are immediately standardized.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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Because much of contract language is repetitive and standardized, LLMs are creating an SLLF that companies can use to reduce both in-house and external legal costs.—
Matthew Sole,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Normalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/normalized. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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