How to Use normalize in a Sentence

normalize

verb

• The drug normalizes heart function.
• The talks are aimed at normalizing relations between the countries.
• It took years for the political situation in the country to normalize.
• As for glass and plastic, the trend is expected to normalize by the end of the second half of the year.
  — WSJ, 4 Jan. 2024
• The goal is to normalize the idea of asking for help and give students a place to reset.
  — Jocelyn Gecker and Dylan Lovan, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
• And normalize alone time for those that need to reboot.
  — Nirosha Methananda, Quartz, 28 Nov. 2022
• It was normalized to just do what you're told, and not ask any questions.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024
• In the process, the movie frivolously normalizes that discourse in that very milieu.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2023
• The two countries are in talks to normalize relations, with the support of the United States.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• All of this is wearing, normalized even—and that’s a problem.
  — Sasha Abramsky, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
• De León’s return to the council committees may normalize him in the eyes of the public.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
• The European Union has overseen years of talks to normalize their ties.
  — Dusan Stojanovic, ajc, 17 Aug. 2022
• In short, the supply chain disruption will take some time to normalize.
  — Mike Patton, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• The result of these initiatives, if not the goal, may be to normalize the idea of geoengineering.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• Let’s not ‘normalize’ any of what this person is doing.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2022
• Then, the scores were normalized for each factor to create a score out of 10 for each destination.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2023
• Kinnier is optimistic that prices could normalize in the near term.
  — Ali Fazal, Fortune, 30 July 2022
• Tapering the dose after the blood pressure is normalized may help reduce the risk.
  — James Myhre & Dennis Sifris, Md, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2024
• Democrats came to see him as someone who might normalize the party with disillusioned voters in the age of Trump.
  — Marc Levy, ajc, 9 Nov. 2022
• The brand wants to be transparent about these side effects and also normalize them in a way that obliterates any shame about the use of these products as a whole.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Oct. 2022
• Isn’t giving your very young kids a taste of beer normalizing drinking way too early?
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 26 July 2023
• There should be no doubt that handing the host baton to such countries as Russia—and now to Qatar, the 2022 host of the World Cup—helps normalize regimes that violate human rights.
  — WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
• Diplomats from the three nations have met more than 40 times in the past year in an effort to normalize routine conversations.
  — Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
• But over time, people will get smarter and savvier and the environment should normalize.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
• Of course, even more invasive practices can be normalized over time.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• My purpose is to dramatize how that could be normalized.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 17 July 2023
• Images of Black girls with natural hair should be seen more in the media so they are normalized for everyone.
  — Audarshia Townsend, Parents, 27 Nov. 2023
• For those who normalize hot sauce as dressing, and truly can't live without the spicy condiment, this set is an absolute must.
  — Vanessa Powell, Men's Health, 9 Dec. 2022
• Some users said the clip was posted on or near the anniversary of their own parent’s death, and others thanked the pair for normalizing such emotions and explaining it in a way that children can understand.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024
• These youth never experienced life in the Soviet Union, the thinking goes, having grown up with open borders and market capitalism in an era in which individual rights and freedoms were normalized.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024