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 strategy should also recommend policies that regularize responses to threats to democratic governance. Jon Temin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2023 The bill does retain measures for regularizing undocumented workers in industries facing shortages, which has prompted anger from politicians on the right. Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024 Then there are police departments not compliant with Biden administration law-enforcement dicta, Republican-run states seeking to regularize their voting laws after last year’s pandemic-palooza of an electoral process, and state legislatures that pass strict pro-life legislation. Gerard Baker, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021 In Bangladesh, their status is as precarious, with local authorities unwilling to regularize the refugees in the camps. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for regularize 

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“Regularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regularize. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.

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