How to Use standardize in a Sentence

standardize

verb
Definition of standardizenext
Synonyms for standardizenext
  • He standardized procedures for the industry.
  • The new rule attempts to standardize the ones with the BB.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The tribute even survived a city campaign in the late 1920s to standardize street names.
    — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024
  • What’s more, there’s been a greater effort to standardize success metrics for the role.
    — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The equipment has evolved over the years and the court size has been standardized, but the concept has remained -- a simple and fun game that anyone can pick up quickly.
    — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The bill aims to improve and standardize working conditions for the workers.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Those are all proprietary, but those could be standardized over time.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • The number has been out of use since the NFL standardized numbers by position in 1973 and the Eagles are running out of room in the single digits.
    — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But the grieving process is a lifelong journey that is neither linear nor standardized from one person to the next.
    — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • It was standardized more than a decade later, and new versions of the SQL standard continue to be published.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2022
  • The Common Core, an effort to standardize grade-level learning across the country, was being rolled out in 2010.
    — Emma Green, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
  • The redesign was not related to the lawsuits and was part of an effort to standardize the company’s cans, Conagra said.
    — Claire Savage, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2023
  • South Koreans are about to get a year or two younger, thanks to a new law passed on Thursday that aims to standardize how age is calculated in the country.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 9 Dec. 2022
  • This can be helpful information while shopping, just keep in mind that the number can be tricky to standardize.
    — Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
  • This will help ensure the alignment of tools in support of agencies’ business needs and standardize processes.
    — Kathleen Walch, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The industry is standardizing its plugs to match Tesla’s.
    — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • True Footage, based in Seattle, collects data to standardize the appraisal process.
    — Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Its intent is to standardize short-, medium- and long-range air defense missiles, as well as radars, for use in warding off potential attacks.
    — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • This was the way America was going to standardize its idea of what different strains of marijuana looked like, tasted like, felt like, and cost.
    — Sean Howe, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2023
  • According to the Guinness World Records website, the feat has to be measurable, able to be standardized, verifiable, and based on just one variable.
    — Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 4 Aug. 2023
  • That year, lawmakers standardized the commitment process across the state and gave county officials the option to call on crisis teams first.
    — Isabelle Taft, ProPublica, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Along with the right to repair, the European Union is looking to standardize power cords and other components to reduce waste further.
    — Laureen Knudsen, Forbes, 6 July 2022
  • New federal guidance that aims to standardize reporting of these deaths has also yet to be published.
    — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • With so many variables in how repetitive TMS is delivered, researchers from around the world are now aiming to pool their knowledge and standardize methods to help the field move forwards.
    — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 23 June 2023
  • At the top of members’ list is having regular, professional mental health checkups, and having their pay standardized with those of their peers across the world.
    — Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2023
  • Comforter dimensions are not standardized in the same way mattresses are.
    — Maria V. Charbonneaux, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 June 2023
  • Early on, Reed’s lab developed a test to try to standardize smell-loss diagnoses at doctors offices.
    — Nicole Kagan, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Dongarra helped standardize how computers split large problems into pieces that can be solved in parallel, rather than having to wait for each piece of the puzzle to be solved in turn.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2022
  • What better way to standardize your company’s way of modeling the 3D future than to partner with the one media company that seems omnipresent in our lives?
    — Gene Park, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
  • And one of their main goals is to get these rules standardized so that police in different jurisdictions put the same effort into finding missing kids.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2023

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