standardize
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The findings come as state officials are proposing to overhaul decades-old pesticide regulations to toughen enforcement and standardize penalties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
Companionship services are fragmented, hard to standardize, and vulnerable to safety concerns.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
A Microsoft spokesman said the company’s decision to reduce access to Anthropic’s Claude Code program wasn’t rooted in cost but stemmed from a desire to standardize what employees use across its organization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
UnitedHealthcare is aiming to standardize pre-authorization requirements among its different lines of business, which include Medicare, Medicaid and employer plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Gey and several colleagues had already organized a committee to develop procedures to “simplify and standardize the technique of tissue culturing.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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The revised directive “simply standardizes the required forms.”
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
The C.D.C. now has a similar process: The agency collects data from hospitals, counties and states, and then it standardizes and reports the data to the public.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023
The resolution, she said, standardizes the exemption and will help speed efforts by humanitarian workers to provide aid to people.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022
This latest iteration of Thread standardizes border routers so that companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google can produce them in a way that device vendors can rely on.
From The Verge ● Jul. 19, 2022
You've got to know whether it standardizes production and marketing, or just markets by as many methods as there are producers.
From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
The findings also relied on symptoms reported by participants rather than standardized clinical examinations.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
We also would have to administer a standardized test in certain grades, if we were going to open an actual school, and maintain annual records about student attendance and immunizations.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Equity concerns drove some universities across the nation to eliminate standardized testing requirements for admission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
Flock has now added a drop-down menu with standardized categories modeled after the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s data-reporting system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Everyone else had to take instruction specifically targeted to boost their standardized test scores.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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While pilots and instructors stress standardizing procedures and flight paths, news incidents like police chases, fires, and crashes force pilots into new conditions during every flight.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Many in the industry have touted federal intervention as a way to “save” college sports by standardizing how recruitment and payment of athletes work.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
In 1955, when Pratt and Kroc crossed paths, they saw that standardizing the products the burger chain carried would help ensure uniform quality, and drive down costs by increasing purchasing power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
"That means sugar yields fluctuate... and that means alcohol output changes. So standardizing production becomes difficult. Mexico solved this over decades through selective breeding. India hasn't yet," he says.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
The work of Trabue in standardizing the "completion test" so that individuals may be quantitatively compared on the basis of it may serve as an example of the second form of scale.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Harry L. Hollingworth
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