as in to standardize
to make agree with a single established standard or model
the garment industry agreed to regularize women's clothing sizes so one company's size six wasn't another company's size ten
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Recent Examples of regularize
The bill does retain measures for regularizing undocumented workers in industries facing shortages, which has prompted anger from politicians on the right.
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Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
Then there are police departments not compliant with Biden administration law-enforcement dicta, Republican-run states seeking to regularize their voting laws after last year’s pandemic-palooza of an electoral process, and state legislatures that pass strict pro-life legislation.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2021
In Bangladesh, their status is as precarious, with local authorities unwilling to regularize the refugees in the camps.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
Jasper’s writings, produced in instants, restrict and regularize forms of verbal expression based on the most dominant qualities of the most common sorts of text.
—WIRED, 22 Mar. 2023
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“Regularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regularize. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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