as in standardizing
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 regularizing
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.
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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
Advertisement The trauma and alienation experienced by those who endured military occupation at our nation’s founding suggests the peril of regularizing military rule in American cities today.
—Time, 9 Oct. 2025
There are strategies for regularizing time, all of which are familiar.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
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
Advertisement The trauma and alienation experienced by those who endured military occupation at our nation’s founding suggests the peril of regularizing military rule in American cities today.
—Time, 9 Oct. 2025
There are strategies for regularizing time, all of which are familiar.
—Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regularizing
standardizing
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Strong suggests legitimizing and standardizing station tattoos, making a design readily available if deputies want to pay homage to their workplace, as other departments across the nation do.—
Sierra van der Brug,
Daily News,
28 May 2026
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Whether a user is upgrading from an older Thunderbolt 4 machine today or standardizing on Thunderbolt 5 laptops on the next refresh cycle, the TBT-UDH2 is designed to perform without rethinking a corporation’s entire desk setup.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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“Regularizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regularizing. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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