as in to organize
to make agree with a single established standard or model the plan is to standardize the test for reading comprehension so that we can see how students across the state compare

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Recent Examples of standardize The agency also standardized training across the board. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2025 But insurance companies haven't standardized testing for those contaminants. CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025 Ukrainian leaders are eager to standardize their artillery on Western calibers in order to align Ukrainian artillery doctrine with Western doctrine and to ensure Ukraine can tap European supply chains for its ammunition needs. David Axe, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025 During the American Revolution—and before the United States standardized its familiar stars and stripes—the patriots carried hundreds of different flags. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for standardize
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  • The focus is organized in partnership with the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Centre – Creative Greece.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 14 May 2025
  • But Hicks added that some figures are naturally better suited to organizing and calling attention to an issue or election than succeeding as a candidate themselves.
    Jared Gans, The Hill, 14 May 2025
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  • Enter India As a follow-up to the Abraham Accords initiative, which normalized relations between Israel and four Arab states, the United States administration pushed for the I2U2 agreement among Israel, India, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates.
    Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • The president has normalized the misuse of executive authority and government resources to coerce the country’s most powerful universities, companies and law firms to cower to his anti-democratic demands.
    Erin M. Carr, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
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  • The new title formalizes her longstanding contributions to Downtown’s catalog growth through dealmaking and business development initiatives.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 12 May 2025
  • Graphic: Joe Murphy / NBC News The longest took place in the 13th century, before conclaves were formalized, when the process that eventually elected Pope Gregory X started in 1268 and ended in 1271.
    Joe Murphy, NBC news, 8 May 2025
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  • This is especially true in the current context where most countries are more focused on accelerating technology's capabilities than efforts to regulate it meaningfully and create societal guardrails.
    Yoshua Bengio, Time, 9 May 2025
  • Serotonin plays a crucial role in regulating mood and sleep patterns.
    Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 9 May 2025
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  • The presence of Tren the Aragua in the United States is one of the central arguments in the Trump administration’s efforts to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who have not yet been able to regularize their immigration status in the country.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • One of the ways that Kim has begun to change his government’s culture is by regularizing its bureaucratic processes.
    David Kang, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2017
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  • The New Reality of AI in the Workplace Today, many AI tools are integrated straight into almost every SaaS application.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • Leveraging Technology And Proactive Planning Businesses should consider integrating technology and proactive planning as core strategies within PPP frameworks.
    Peter Ross, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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  • When integrated with infrastructure-as-code and observability stacks, these agents can coordinate to self-heal services, tune performance or even recommend architectural refactoring.
    Anuj Tyagi, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • For the outing, the pair, who've been romantically linked since 2023, coordinated in chic all-black looks.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 15 May 2025

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“Standardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardize. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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