How to Use regularize in a Sentence

regularize

verb
  • Under the program, illegal immigrants would be able to apply to regularize their status.
  • The sunlight will program your body clock and help regularize your sleep and wake rhythm.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 Apr. 2018
  • For minors, their status is regularized for five years.
    — Marta Campabadal Graus, NBC news, 30 May 2026
  • In some cases, the verbs were regularized, losing weird past forms in favor of more predictable ones that end in –ed.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Migrants who wanted to cross and request asylum or seek to regularize their status and find work could do so.
    — Time, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The local government switched garbage providers and has promised to regularize service.
    — Peter Prengaman, The Seattle Times, 26 May 2017
  • There are strategies for regularizing time, all of which are familiar.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
  • So one of the easiest ways to fix this middle of the night problem is to regularize your morning awakening and go to bed later.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 23 July 2024
  • The bridge was open on the previous day to migrants who wanted to cross and request asylum in Mexico, or seek to regularize their status and find work.
    — Author: María Verza, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • The documents usually give migrants a month or more to regularize their status in Mexico or leave the country.
    — Washington Post, 24 June 2022
  • This is not the first time Spain has opted to regularize its undocumented population.
    — Marta Campabadal Graus, NBC news, 30 May 2026
  • One of the ways that Kim has begun to change his government’s culture is by regularizing its bureaucratic processes.
    — David Kang, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2017
  • 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
  • But many have grown frustrated there by the slow bureaucratic process to regularize their status and the lack of job opportunities to provide for their families.
    — Elliot Spagat, ajc, 8 June 2022
  • 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
  • Some state governments have tried in recent years to regularize wages for domestic workers — in Rajasthan, for example, they now must be paid at least $87 a month.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 15 July 2017
  • That could put unauthorized immigrants who are seeking to regularize their immigration status at risk of deportation.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Brazil’s rules previously gave foreigners at risk of deportation 60 days to regularize their status.
    — Washington Post, 26 July 2019
  • Beijing also announced that its military forces would begin regularizing patrols in the Taiwan Strait.
    — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The bill does retain measures for regularizing undocumented workers in industries facing shortages, which has prompted anger from politicians on the right.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The Vatican seems to be betting that regularizing religious practice will revitalize the faith.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2018
  • If your business has a good reputation for delivering great service but lacks attention to collections, paying close attention to this area can increase and regularize cash flow.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 13 June 2022
  • Nicaraguans and Haitians have been given 14 and 18 months, respectively, to regularize their legal status in the US or return home.
    — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Manifolds regularize the training landscape, reducing collapse events and supporting faster, more predictable convergence as models scale.
    — David William Silva, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The strategy should also recommend policies that regularize responses to threats to democratic governance.
    — Jon Temin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Restoring ties and regularizing Catholic religious life in China has been a priority for Pope Francis.
    — Ian Johnson, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Parolees must either leave the country at the end of their parole period or regularize their immigration status in order to stay, such as applying for a visa, seeking asylum, or obtaining citizenship.
    — Jill Goldenziel, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is working on a new measure to try to regularize more of the country’s economy by discouraging the use of cash.
    — Flavia Rotondi, Bloomberg.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The key part of the deal calls for the Vatican to recognize the seven living illegitimate bishops and regularize their status in the church, while also arranging for two legitimate ones to step aside.
    — Nicole Winfield, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Special police forces, once considered incorruptible, have become tainted by the arrego, regularized bribery between officials and traffickers.
    — Benjamin Lessing, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018

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