How to Use standardize in a Sentence

standardize

verb
  • He standardized procedures for the industry.
  • The new rule attempts to standardize the ones with the BB.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 7 Feb. 2024
  • There was a move in the North to standardize and use Jan. 1 like England.
    — Kelly Ward, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • Still, others might not pass the NCAA’s standardized test.
    — Michael McCann, SI.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • Indeed, there are a few ways that the letters could be standardized.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
  • The appraisal system will get standardized across the state.
    — Dallas News, 5 July 2019
  • 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
  • Unicode has to vote on the proposal and then approve and standardize the emoji in a process that can take up to two years.
    — Suzannah Weiss, Teen Vogue, 27 Feb. 2018
  • 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 rules for the event include specs for design and construction for the Cubmobiles to make sure all the cars are standardized.
    — Cheryl Petzel, Daily Southtown, 19 July 2017
  • But manufacturers still want to make sure that rules are standardized across the country, and that prospect is still up in the air.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 30 July 2019
  • 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 plans are not standardized, so read them carefully.
    — Samantha Gross, miamiherald, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Only students in grades four, eight and 10 took the science standardized test.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Sep. 2017
  • 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 committee hasn’t met so many times during the same period since the process was standardized four decades ago.
    — Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Dot depth, size and distance are now all standardized for the fastest and accurate reading.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 May 2018
  • Anyone with a body knows that clothing sizes aren't standardized.
    — Rosemary Donahue, Allure, 4 June 2017
  • 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
  • The researchers’ next steps will be to standardize the tests and obtain benchmarks for different types of sperm, including human and bovine.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 14 May 2025
  • Until those bodies helped standardize commerce, countries frequently used trade to extract concessions from one another.
    — Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025

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