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Among other things, it would create a legal pathway for immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens to regularize their status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Along with a more expansive group of retail and payments partners, Google announced its Agent Payments Protocol, an open standard that the company hopes will accelerate and regularize AI shopping across retail sites.

From Barron's ● Jan. 13, 2026

Late last year, the government began a countrywide reconciliation drive meant to regularize the status of Assad-linked personnel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2025

In correspondence with the Oakland Institute, the World Bank says it is not funding efforts by Tanzanian authorities to regularize park boundaries.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

She had come to Lady Henry firmly determined to marry as soon and as well as she could--to throw off the slur on her life--to regularize her name and place in the world.

From Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The agreement regularizes the status of seven bishops who had been appointed by Beijing over the years without papal consent, and sets out a process of dialogue going forward to name new ones.

From Fox News ● Sep. 26, 2018

Once she regularizes her documents, the authorities might let her back in, but if she was in a condition in which she needed frequent attention, it might be better if she were near you.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2018

Under the guise of regulating the shuttles, the program regularizes the status quo – allowing the private buses to continue using the approximately 200 bus stops it already uses for a nominal fee. 

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2014

Once the player regularizes his status in Europe and gains experience, it is easier for him to move from one team to another.

From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2010

It has discovered the gradual excitements of which it is susceptible; it regularizes its action, and has fixed limits, which a man who respects himself will never pass.

From The Physiology of Taste by Robinson, Fayette

The State Department urged China to "engage in meaningful arms control discussions and commit to a regularized notification arrangement for all intercontinental-range ballistic missile and space launches."

From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026

The new Brazilian constitutional monarchy simply regularized the status quo.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

When Xi took office in 2012, the smooth transfer of power was seen as a sign that China’s political system had evolved from personal rule toward a system of regularized leadership transitions.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022

"I think what we are trying to do is ensure that these are regularized, normalized processes," Hsiao said.

From Reuters ● Aug. 25, 2022

At last Kepler’s position had been regularized, although Tycho continued to dole out his wealth of data in penny packets, as and when he thought Kepler needed it, rather than giving him free access.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

Many infertile women took birth control pills in hopes of regularizing their monthly cycles to facilitate a pregnancy.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021

Migrants have repeatedly expressed skepticism about receiving documentation regularizing them in Mexico, and organizers say another caravan is already about to depart from Tapachula, a major migrant massing point close to the border with Guatemala.

From Reuters ● Nov. 24, 2021

At the very least you need to increase this woman’s pay to the legal minimum and also talk to her about regularizing her employment.

From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2014

"The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is terminating the process that was started during the conversation in Guatemala, which was aimed at regularizing our diplomatic relations," the ministry said late on Friday in a statement.

From Reuters ● Jul. 20, 2013

And hence, while a half-philosophy disdains the classifications and distinctions indicated by popular language, philosophy carried to its highest point frames new ones, but rarely sets aside the old, content with correcting and regularizing them.

From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David