as in to organize
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 standardize
Cannabis industry transplants are even spearheading the creation of certificate programs to help standardize skills for roles such as cultivation, processing and distribution.
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Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
The Payment Automation Manager, or PAM, is a payment processing system developed over a decade ago to streamline payments across the government and standardize fiscal data to provide better transparency.
—Jamie Leventhal, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Avoiding Mediocrity Finally, there is a warning about the implications of attempts to standardize information through machines.
—Tracey Follows, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
There are three main challenges—standardizing health insurance contracts, creating a digital transaction system, and ensuring that health insurance companies use it.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
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Peter Su, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
The Payment Automation Manager, or PAM, is a payment processing system developed over a decade ago to streamline payments across the government and standardize fiscal data to provide better transparency.
—Jamie Leventhal, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
Avoiding Mediocrity Finally, there is a warning about the implications of attempts to standardize information through machines.
—Tracey Follows, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
There are three main challenges—standardizing health insurance contracts, creating a digital transaction system, and ensuring that health insurance companies use it.
—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for standardize
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From organizing food drives to donating recycling proceeds to global projects, EOLO is proof that small acts can scale.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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The forty-three students in Tate’s charge visited all the city’s major sites, plus some often overlooked on school trips organized by white teachers: Frederick Douglass’s house, Miner Teachers College, and the Howard University campus that would later become Tate’s academic home.—
April White,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Apr. 2025
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All signs point to trajectories like Max's becoming not just normalized, but bankable, and art clearly matters less than cash in that equation.—
Sheldon Pearce,
NPR,
8 Apr. 2025
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Yet, to hear Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tell it, the Trump administration wants to not only normalize such donations but encourage them across Washington.—
Renee Dudley,
ProPublica,
5 Apr. 2025
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To a large extent, the CRA simply formalizes cybersecurity practices and features as mandatory minimum standards.—
Stephanie Domas,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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The memorandum of understanding, which would formalize the terms of ICE’s office on Rikers, has not yet been completed.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
15 Apr. 2025
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College leaders don’t want to recognize the athletes as employees, but that comes at a cost: NCAA attempts to regulate the market in arguably logical ways swiftly face antitrust lawsuits.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
13 Apr. 2025
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Adams said the city’s airspace is highly regulated, pilots are well-trained, and the aircraft are well maintained.—
Philip Marcelo,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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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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Beijing also announced that its military forces would begin regularizing patrols in the Taiwan Strait.—
Joseph Epstein,
Newsweek,
10 Dec. 2024
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To further integrate the environment, use natural materials such as oak and mixed hardwood.—
Katherine McLaughlin,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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Then the hope is that over time the company starts integrating that into their work and the performance in an unselfconscious way.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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Hough coordinated her look with black platform sandal heels, a statement belt and sunglasses.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
23 Apr. 2025
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The march was coordinated by Dennis Hayes, who was a student at the time and is now a board member for EarthDay.org, according to Davies.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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“Standardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardize. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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