standardizing

verb

present participle of standardize
as in organizing
to make agree with a single established standard or model the plan is to standardize the test for reading comprehension so that we can see how students across the state compare

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Recent Examples of standardizing Modular’s cost claims in comparison to CUDA need independent validation, and smart buyers will pilot real workloads on at least two kinds of hardware and measure cost, speed and engineering effort before standardizing on anything. — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 The Linux Foundation’s Tokenomics Foundation—focused on standardizing how companies measure and manage AI token costs and connect them to business value—officially launches today, backed by about 30 initial members. — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 The latest accomplishment has been standardizing what materials can be recycled across four out of five households. — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026 To address this challenge, the company has made substantial investments in new formulations for tile materials, standardizing shapes, and more. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026 By standardizing component layouts, equipment integration, and vendor specifications, the company replicates full production lines without requiring site-specific engineering overhauls. — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026 Recycling Powerhouse plans to address this by industrializing, standardizing and scaling textile recycling through a global network of textile recycling plants that can convert post- and pre-consumer textile waste into recycled yarns. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 21 July 2026 In a 2025 paper, Alikani and her colleague outlined how standardizing automation technologies across laboratories and clinics could improve IVF success rates. — Edna Bonhomme, Scientific American, 6 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for standardizing
  1. organizing
  2. normalizing
  3. formalizing
  4. regulating
  5. regularizing
  6. integrating
  7. homogenizing
  8. coordinating
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  • What was new was someone finally organizing it into something a nurse could use in sixty seconds in the chaos of a delivery room.
    — Stacy L. Hambleton, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This is strong energy for editing, organizing, asking clearly, or naming the next step.
    — Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of organizing
Verb
  • Naturally, the rest of the plot focusses on his elaborate scheme to get out of hot water by normalizing the word in his office.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Some of Syria’s neighbors have also lauded the decision as a landmark step to normalizing the geopolitical situation in a country ripped apart again and again by civil conflict.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of normalizing
Verb
  • Trump plans to sign an executive order formalizing the directive within two weeks, the official said.
    — Seung Min Kim, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The president is expected to sign an executive order within the next two weeks formalizing the move, a White House official said.
    — Joey Garrison, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of formalizing
Verb
  • The sweet summer fruit is made of 92 percent water, an essential nutrient for regulating body temperature and supporting key processes in the body, notes Elick.
    — Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Comporta and Melides have their beach clubs and their destination dining, but strict laws regulating construction have for now prevented the kind of overdevelopment that can disrupt such an unspoiled place.
    — Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of regulating
Verb
  • Driven by blunt ideology rather than the reality of balancing harms, Font and Putnam-Hornstein advance a flawed and damaging premise that child safety requires normalizing and regularizing family separation.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 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
Definition of regularizing
Verb
  • MacDonald and editor Phil Hignett have a keen, witty sense of how the online realm crashes offline living, seamlessly integrating deadly-accurate TikTok parodies into the film’s breezy narrative flow.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
  • By integrating waypoint tracking with an obstacle-avoidance cost, the robot could detour around an obstacle while continuing toward its destination.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of integrating
Verb
  • Various claims are made that since generative AI is based on statistically homogenizing human knowledge, the result will be that humans will follow suit.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • The first book was published the same year as Serial debuted, kicking off our burgeoning obsession with true crime and our tendency to romanticize the male perpetrators while often homogenizing their overwhelmingly female victims into cautionary tales.
    — Scarlett Harris, Time, 11 June 2026
Definition of homogenizing
Verb
  • Additionally, the department has been coordinating with the Nepali government to assist with the rescue effort.
    — Isabel Danzis, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
  • The new couple—who have been linked since they were photographed together at Coachella—dined around the city, showing off their coordinating couple style.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of coordinating

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“Standardizing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardizing. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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