as in to organize
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 standardize Until those bodies helped standardize commerce, countries frequently used trade to extract concessions from one another. Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025 This comprehensive report recommended improvements including standardizing valuation methodologies, improving data sharing between the assessor and the Board of Review, and enhancing overall assessment accuracy and uniformity. George Cardenas, Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2025 Mitigate this by standardizing APIs, using middleware and ensuring cloud services are compatible with legacy systems. Bhupendra Singh, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 Members of a German solar industry association spent years advocating for the technology and worked with VDE to carve a path toward standardizing balcony solar systems. Akielly Hu, Wired News, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for standardize
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  • The trophy parade was organized on a nationwide bank holiday, the day after Liverpool lifted the Premier League trophy following the competition’s final round of matches on Sunday.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
  • White farmers are often rendered defenseless because South Africa banned private gun possession and disbanded mutual protection cooperatives organized by farmers in the past, Genocide Watch explained.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 25 May 2025
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  • Initially met with shock and horror, the idea of the Russian conquest of Ukraine has since been normalized by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called for letting Moscow keep some of this land.
    Ryan D. Griffiths, Foreign Affairs, 20 May 2025
  • Start the Conversation Creating an environment where mental health discussions are normalized benefits everyone.
    Kara Dennison, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
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  • Organized and formalized and with enough coverage, DER becomes a VPP.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The agreement attempted to formalize this exchange through the Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing System.
    Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 19 May 2025
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  • This process helps us self-audit, regulate our practices and identify areas for improvement.
    Geoff Scott, New York Times, 21 May 2025
  • Carr has pushed companies regulated by the FCC to do the same, resulting in Verizon and T-Mobile dropping DEI programs in order to secure approval for mergers that required the FCC's sign-off.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 May 2025
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  • The 2018 deal was aimed at uniting the flock, regularizing the status of seven bishops who weren’t recognized by Rome and thawing decades of estrangement between China and the Vatican.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • The presence of Tren the Aragua in the United States is one of the central arguments in the Trump administration’s efforts to deport hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who have not yet been able to regularize their immigration status in the country.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
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  • By integrating artificial intelligence, computer vision and data analytics, driverless tractors can conduct soil tests, optimize seed selection, execute precise planting, and create detailed field maps—redefining what’s possible in agriculture.
    Josh Max, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • The resort’s longevity program integrates the Mylife Changer method and anti-inflammatory metabolic program that targets detoxifying and cell-regeneration treatments, biohacking and movement.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 24 May 2025
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  • Dakota Johnson wore a body-skimming black midi dress with spaghetti straps and a thigh-high slit at the Cannes Film Festival, while Oprah Winfrey attended the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV in a long-sleeve maxi dress with a pleated skirt and coordinating bow belt.
    Jamie Allison Sanders, People.com, 30 May 2025
  • From Celestial Blue to Butter Yellow, with 13 unique color choices, coordinating or matching the color and style of a bedroom is easy with the variation in color palette.
    Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 30 May 2025

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“Standardize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/standardize. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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