How to Use regularize in a Sentence

regularize

verb
  • Under the program, illegal immigrants would be able to apply to regularize their status.
  • The sunlight will program your body clock and help regularize your sleep and wake rhythm.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In some cases, the verbs were regularized, losing weird past forms in favor of more predictable ones that end in –ed.
    Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • The parties drew up a draft agreement to regularize the arrangement: Low would pay $8 million up front.
    Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Migrants who wanted to cross and request asylum or seek to regularize their status and find work could do so.
    Time, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The local government switched garbage providers and has promised to regularize service.
    Peter Prengaman, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • The bridge was open on the previous day to migrants who wanted to cross and request asylum in Mexico, or seek to regularize their status and find work.
    Author: María Verza, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Nicaraguans and Haitians have been given 14 and 18 months, respectively, to regularize their legal status in the US or return home.
    Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The worry is that the burden of this would fall largely on poor people, and on poor Muslims, because the others could get regularized under the Citizenship Amendment Act.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Some state governments have tried in recent years to regularize wages for domestic workers — in Rajasthan, for example, they now must be paid at least $87 a month.
    Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 15 July 2017
  • The documents usually give migrants a month or more to regularize their status in Mexico or leave the country.
    Washington Post, 24 June 2022
  • Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is working on a new measure to try to regularize more of the country’s economy by discouraging the use of cash.
    Flavia Rotondi, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • But many have grown frustrated there by the slow bureaucratic process to regularize their status and the lack of job opportunities to provide for their families.
    Elliot Spagat, ajc, 8 June 2022
  • The September 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, The Seattle Times, 25 Mar. 2019
  • The key part of the deal calls for the Vatican to recognize the seven living illegitimate bishops and regularize their status in the church, while also arranging for two legitimate ones to step aside.
    Nicole Winfield, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The dwindling caravan in Veracruz was the first to advance so far into Mexico in the past two years, but the grueling conditions of the trek and the government's offers to regularize migrants' status has led the majority to drop out.
    Arkansas Online, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Restoring ties and regularizing Catholic religious life in China has been a priority for Pope Francis.
    Ian Johnson, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Winning the legal status could let some 2.2 million people like him regularize their shaky status, work legally, claim some benefits, and live without fear of deportation.
    Anastasia Moloney, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 July 2021
  • First, making regularized structured draws allows the Fund to not be overdrawn in up markets, ensuring assets stay invested for longer periods, earning higher rates of return.
    Anchorage Daily News, 27 Jan. 2018
  • The Vatican seems to be betting that regularizing religious practice will revitalize the faith.
    Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
  • In 1974, Congress passed a law to regularize the budget-making process that allowed lawmakers to pass certain types of spending and taxation legislation with a simple majority.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • If your business has a good reputation for delivering great service but lacks attention to collections, paying close attention to this area can increase and regularize cash flow.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • Parolees must either leave the country at the end of their parole period or regularize their immigration status in order to stay, such as applying for a visa, seeking asylum, or obtaining citizenship.
    Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Brazil’s rules previously gave foreigners at risk of deportation 60 days to regularize their status.
    Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • Sleep-apnea patients can be hooked into continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines: large, cumbersome masks to ease and regularize their breathing.
    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, The Cut, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Congress and the White House are engaged in trying to put together a bill to overhaul and regularize police practices—banning some, limiting no-knock warrants, maybe imposing more liability risk on officers for misconduct.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Those might involve regularizing sleep and food, minimizing alcohol and other substances, exercising, avoiding obsessions with the news, and cutting back on other aimless habits that might be easier to moderate in normal times.
    James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 22 May 2020
  • Special police forces, once considered incorruptible, have become tainted by the arrego, regularized bribery between officials and traffickers.
    Benjamin Lessing, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
  • What Republicans in states around the country consider perfectly reasonable efforts to regularize voting rules after the outlier pandemic election of 2020, Democrats hyperbolically describe as a return to Jim Crow.
    Damon Linker, The Week, 7 June 2021

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