as in to standardize
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 regularize
The 2018 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.
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Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
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
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Congress have decisions to make to regularize the industry and allow small business to be profitable.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
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
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Congress have decisions to make to regularize the industry and allow small business to be profitable.
—Tribune Content Agency, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regularize
standardize
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Federal prosecutors, however, have standardized U.S. Department of Justice guidelines.—
Ashley Luthern,
jsonline.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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If states or federal agencies ever standardized land records, integrated court and tax data, and implemented a centralized risk model, that could certainly impact how title risk is managed.—
Marc Shaw,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Regularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regularize. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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