standardizing

verb

present participle of standardize
as in organizing
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 standardizing Beginning in 2018, BIE began standardizing data collection methods. — Savannah Peters, Fortune, 13 July 2026 By standardizing how agents discover and call tools, MCP ended the era of every vendor building custom AI integrations. — Alex Salazar, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 In a 2025 paper, Alikani and her colleague outlined how standardizing automation technologies across laboratories and clinics could improve IVF success rates. — Edna Bonhomme, Scientific American, 6 July 2026 The America First plan proposed standardizing data collection and processing within countries. — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 17 June 2026 Could standardizing chocolate help small-scale farmers? — Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 15 June 2026 This also will help provide transparency needed to guide infrastructure investment and scale recycling technologies, while also standardizing shared definitions, material taxonomies and reporting to ensure industry-wide compliance. — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 3 June 2026 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 State officials insisted the removal boosted public safety by standardizing traffic markings statewide, but drew criticism for targeting designs and colors supporting the LGBTQ community. — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for standardizing
  1. organizing
  2. normalizing
  3. formalizing
  4. regulating
  5. regularizing
  6. integrating
  7. homogenizing
  8. coordinating
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  • Jean started organizing her daily routines around their conversations, and dreaming of their future together — a big house, a blended family, a new beginning.
    — Juliet Linderman, Fortune, 16 July 2026
  • Here, the focus naturally turns toward organizing your thoughts, tackling errands and paying attention to the routines that shape your life.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
Definition of organizing
Verb
  • The key along the way is to avoid normalizing wartime mindsets in peacetime societies, says Hans Horan, a strategic analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026
  • But the campaign, whatever its failures, has succeeded in normalizing the use of military force to combat drugs.
    — Marie-Rose Sheinerman, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026
Definition of normalizing
Verb
  • The Indian economy is transforming as large parts of it are formalizing on the back of widespread adoption of digital technologies and changes in tax structure.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 9 July 2026
  • The document formalizing the name change was signed by the center’s general counsel, Elliot Berke.
    — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
Definition of formalizing
Verb
  • Councilman Tom Flight cast the lone dissenting vote, warning that government should be cautious about regulating the display of art on private property, even when the work is unusually large.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 13 July 2026
  • But even that law is largely focused on ensuring the proper facility and environment for grooming, not regulating groomer technique or experience.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
Definition of regulating
Verb
  • 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.
    — Chicago Tribune, 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
Definition of regularizing
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  • Scaling future nodes Intel described the milestone as an important step in integrating High NA EUV into commercial chip production at scale while maintaining manufacturing flexibility for future process technologies.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
  • Nexstar completed the Tegna acquisition on March 19, but a federal judge ordered the merging companies to stop integrating their assets and operations while an antitrust case brought by DirecTV proceeds.
    — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 15 July 2026
Definition of integrating
Verb
  • Various claims are made that since generative AI is based on statistically homogenizing human knowledge, the result will be that humans will follow suit.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The first book was published the same year as Serial debuted, kicking off our burgeoning obsession with true crime and our tendency to romanticize the male perpetrators while often homogenizing their overwhelmingly female victims into cautionary tales.
    — Scarlett Harris, Time, 11 June 2026
Definition of homogenizing
Verb
  • Teams are clearing right-of-way storm damage and are coordinating with ComEd as power is restored so that more work areas are deemed safe for clean-up, Aurora officials said.
    — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2026
  • The National Park Service and the state are coordinating the celebration, and a ticket lottery to attend has already closed.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 July 2026
Definition of coordinating

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