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
Manifolds regularize the training landscape, reducing collapse events and supporting faster, more predictable convergence as models scale.
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David William Silva,
Forbes.com,
24 Feb. 2026
With a new legalization program that aims to regularize half a million migrants already living there, Spain is proving that immigration is a strategic investment, not a police matter.
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Tania Navarro,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
In her conversations with small-business owners, Higgins learned that some have been forced to reduce staff or lay off employees because several of their workers were TPS beneficiaries or were in the process of regularizing their paperwork.
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Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The trauma and alienation experienced by those who endured military occupation at our nation’s founding suggests the peril of regularizing military rule in American cities today.
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Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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David William Silva,
Forbes.com,
24 Feb. 2026
With a new legalization program that aims to regularize half a million migrants already living there, Spain is proving that immigration is a strategic investment, not a police matter.
—
Tania Navarro,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Feb. 2026
In her conversations with small-business owners, Higgins learned that some have been forced to reduce staff or lay off employees because several of their workers were TPS beneficiaries or were in the process of regularizing their paperwork.
—
Sarah Moreno,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
Advertisement The trauma and alienation experienced by those who endured military occupation at our nation’s founding suggests the peril of regularizing military rule in American cities today.
—
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regularize
standardize
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The dispute resolution processes are standardized across all states and are free for parents to file.
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His advice is to invest early in systems that standardize order tracking, issue resolution, and returns before rapid growth exposes operational cracks.
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“Regularize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regularize. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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