regularize
Example Sentences
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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.
From Seattle Times
The deal regularized the status of seven of these “illegitimate” bishops and brought them into full communion with the pope.
From Washington Times
“They are practically holding us prisoners; they do not allow us to leave this state because we are not regularized here,” said Venezuelan migrant Noreydi Chávez.
From Seattle Times
The bill’s supporters say it will bring income and jobs to impoverished Indigenous communities and also regularize and tax the illegal mining that is already there.
From Washington Post
Instead of trying so hard to regularize how students are admitted, we might consider why U.S. colleges, both famous and obscure, work so well for so many people.
From Washington Post
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