as in to standardize
to make agree with a single established standard or model
the garment industry agreed to regularize women's clothing sizes so one company's size six wasn't another company's size ten
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Recent Examples of regularize
That could put unauthorized immigrants who are seeking to regularize their immigration status at risk of deportation.
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Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
This is always for three nights running, and the idea is to build up a enough sleep pressure to regularize yourself.
—Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 25 July 2025
After eliminating several immigration programs and benefits established by the previous administration under Joe Biden, the government of Donald Trump has decided to end another key aid for those seeking to regularize their immigration status in the United States.
—Miami Herald, 19 July 2025
The 2018 deal was aimed at uniting the flock, regularizing the status of seven bishops who weren’t recognized by Rome and thawing decades of estrangement between China and the Vatican.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
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Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
This is always for three nights running, and the idea is to build up a enough sleep pressure to regularize yourself.
—Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 25 July 2025
After eliminating several immigration programs and benefits established by the previous administration under Joe Biden, the government of Donald Trump has decided to end another key aid for those seeking to regularize their immigration status in the United States.
—Miami Herald, 19 July 2025
The 2018 deal was aimed at uniting the flock, regularizing the status of seven bishops who weren’t recognized by Rome and thawing decades of estrangement between China and the Vatican.
—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regularize
standardize
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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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The tools promise to speed up iteration, standardize testing, unify training with on-robot inference, and help robots transfer skills more safely from simulation to the real world.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Regularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regularize. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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