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
Over the past two years, Nasdaq has focused on standardizing data definitions, centralizing information, and building dashboards capable of supporting more advanced AI applications.
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Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
24 June 2026
The America First plan proposed standardizing data collection and processing within countries.
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Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
17 June 2026
Could standardizing chocolate help small-scale farmers?
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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.
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Jennifer Bringle,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
That includes standardizing how infrastructure is defined, reducing variation across environments and ensuring that policies are enforced as part of how systems operate rather than as an afterthought.
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Matthew Sweeney,
Forbes.com,
1 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.
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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.
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Cristóbal Reyes,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
By clarifying roles early, streamlining interviews, standardizing evaluations and improving communication, employers can make faster, more confident hiring decisions.
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Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2026
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
24 June 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
That includes standardizing how infrastructure is defined, reducing variation across environments and ensuring that policies are enforced as part of how systems operate rather than as an afterthought.
—
Matthew Sweeney,
Forbes.com,
1 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
By clarifying roles early, streamlining interviews, standardizing evaluations and improving communication, employers can make faster, more confident hiring decisions.
—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for standardizing
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Believe it or not, some people have made the mistake of throwing away old family photos for the sake of organizing only to wind up regretting it!
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Players are responsible for organizing tables and groups; the Senior Center cannot arrange seating or table assignments.
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Stars have spoken about plastic surgery for different reasons over the years — some in the hope of normalizing cosmetic work, others to be upfront about the struggles that led them to go under the knife.
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However, the head of the world’s largest tanker operator has suggested a more complicated path to normalizing traffic through the strait, which accounted for around 20% of the world’s oil supply before the outbreak of the war at the end of February.
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Edwin Lopez has been sworn in as the next police chief in the city of Miami, formalizing a changing of the guard as Mayor Eileen Higgins enters her sixth month in office.
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For the first week, most of the activity on the thread was about formalizing basic concepts from probability theory that the proof required but were not yet in Mathlib.
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District 4 Commissoner Chakira Johnson also called for more transparency in the defining and regulating process.
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Currently there is no transparent, consistent framework for regulating AI in the United States.
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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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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.
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Segregation laws prevented Black students from integrating into Euless schools in 1950.
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Spotify's landmark partnership with FC Barcelona reimagined traditional sports sponsorship by integrating artists directly into the club's global platform.
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Various claims are made that since generative AI is based on statistically homogenizing human knowledge, the result will be that humans will follow suit.
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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.
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The United Nations was on the ground and coordinating help from a global fund.
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The family of four all wore matching Adidas looks with a coordinating red-white-and-blue star pattern for Team USA.
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“Standardizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardizing. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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