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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After the war, the implementation of daylight saving time varied from state to state until the Uniform Time Act passed in 1966, which standardized the dates of daylight saving time but allowed for local exemptions if states or localities did not want to participate.
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Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
Organizations worldwide are already researching ways to implement quantum-resistant encryption standards, including the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is actively working to identify and standardize additional post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.
—Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
The challenge was to establish rules that standardize how any kind of machine talks to another one over any kind of connection.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
At the same time, though, the law forcibly ended Cook County’s system requiring lobbyists to register and to report how much they were paid to lobby county government — a move sold as standardizing lobbying regulations outside Chicago.
—Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2024
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Rebecca Cohen, NBC News, 2 Nov. 2024
Organizations worldwide are already researching ways to implement quantum-resistant encryption standards, including the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is actively working to identify and standardize additional post-quantum cryptographic algorithms.
—Skip Sanzeri, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
The challenge was to establish rules that standardize how any kind of machine talks to another one over any kind of connection.
—Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2024
At the same time, though, the law forcibly ended Cook County’s system requiring lobbyists to register and to report how much they were paid to lobby county government — a move sold as standardizing lobbying regulations outside Chicago.
—Dan Petrella, Chicago Tribune, 17 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for standardize
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At campuses across the country — including top California universities, New York University and Harvard — unions representing graduate student workers, part-time and non-tenure track faculty and others are rapidly and aggressively moving to organize workers.Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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After all, who had ever heard of hiring someone to organize your files?Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Italians had decided to normalize with Assad and had sent an ambassador for the first time back to Damascus last month.Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Experts say this could signal the start of a dangerous feedback loop, where violence is normalized and encouraged online.Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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On Monday, the board of the California Assn. of Racing Fairs was formalizing its decision to withdraw its application for a racing meeting from Dec. 25 to June 10 at Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack.John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
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On January 6, 2021, when a joint session of took place to formalize Biden's victory, hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in a riot that led to deaths, arrests, and convictions.Ryan Smith, Newsweek, 16 Dec. 2024
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Similarly, Justice Elena Kagan questioned the practicality of assessing the environmental effects that an agency cannot regulate.Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Dec. 2024
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This hormone is produced by the pineal gland in the brain and regulates sleep and wakefulness and tends to increase in the winter due to the lack of sunlight.Sherri Gordon, Health, 9 Dec. 2024
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This is a mistake; the City Council, which regularized the COVID-era program, overregulated the outdoor eateries and needs to go back to the drawing board.New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 29 Nov. 2024
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Two months later, the Parliament agreed to pass the Platform Work Directive, a law that will regularize the employment status and rights of platform workers like Uber drivers and content moderators in E.U. member states.Billy Perrigo, TIME, 5 Sep. 2024
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The first few years of the initiative will be spent integrating the two programs.Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2024
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As workloads increase and stress levels follow, integrating work commitments with home life becomes harder to navigate; especially for working mothers who may be adding childcare into the mix.Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
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The pair — who sport coordinating green velvet dresses and white furs — belt out the 1984 song while moving around a set designed to look like the end of a raucous house party.Toria Sheffield, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
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This skill is built during early childhood as children learn to walk and coordinate their bodies to carry out complicated tasks.Heidi Moawad, Verywell Health, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Standardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardize. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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