How to Use standardize in a Sentence
standardize
verb- He standardized procedures for the industry.
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The new rule attempts to standardize the ones with the BB.
— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024 -
Part of what’s helped standardize the space, Seville says, is money.
— Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020 -
The tribute even survived a city campaign in the late 1920s to standardize street names.
— Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2024 -
So, in 1883 the railroads met and established a plan to standardize time across the U.S.
— Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021 -
What’s more, there’s been a greater effort to standardize success metrics for the role.
— Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Since they are not standardized or tested by the FDA, there are many unknowns.
— Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 14 June 2024 -
Then in 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act to standardize the twice-a-year changing of the clocks nationwide.
— Addy Bink, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2024 -
Casting molds found at the site demonstrate that artisans took care to standardize the coins’ shape and size.
— Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Aug. 2021 -
The state Supreme Court, which has the power to require county courts to standardize and report data, has not done so.
— Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2020 -
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 -
The bill would standardize election laws across the country and restore provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
— Mike Rodak | Mrodak@al.com, al, 19 Jan. 2022 -
Efforts to simplify and standardize the process have stalled.
— Sidney Fussell, Wired, 21 Oct. 2021 -
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 -
The cuts are coming as CMS standardizes stipend rates, which pay advisors.
— Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2024 -
It was standardized more than a decade later, and new versions of the SQL standard continue to be published.
— IEEE Spectrum, 23 Aug. 2022 -
And the draft would standardize a process for speaking at committee meetings.
— Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 Apr. 2021 -
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 -
John Lewis Act that already passed in the House would reverse many of those restrictions and standardize election laws across the country.
— ABC News, 16 Jan. 2022 -
In 1966, Congress passed the Uniform Time Act, standardizing the length of daylight saving time.
— Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Once the cobalt is mined, a new agency will buy it from the miners and standardize pricing for diggers, ensuring the government can tax the sales.
— New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021 -
Some countries aim to standardize the tests and remove human error.
— New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021 -
At first, researchers had no way to measure and standardize the level of antibodies in each batch.
— Heidi Ledford, Scientific American, 24 Aug. 2020 -
Many in the nuclear industry view this as, at least in part, a failure to standardize designs.
— John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2020 -
So night 2 was destined to provide at least a partial answer to the question: What will be standardized from night-to-night now through the close of the eight-weekend run, and what will be variable?
— Chris Willman, Variety, 19 May 2024 -
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 -
In Waymo’s case, the fleet is generally standardized, with riders always getting the same make and model of vehicle.
— David Ingram, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2024
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