standardize
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Under the new approach, set to take effect Sept. 1, UPS said it plans to standardize key operational processes across geographies while remaining flexible to meet the needs of local markets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
“We will take this as a lesson to further standardize our business processes, as well as optimize and upgrade our operations,” the company said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
On its most recent earnings call, the company said it would invest several hundred million dollars to standardize its business on a global platform.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
With AI highlighting nuances between role titles and the actual skills necessary and tasks performed, companies can then begin to standardize roles to help support business operations and career trajectories.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 13, 2026
When we were in tenth grade, he orchestrated a plan to standardize our entire class—make every tenth-grader exactly the same.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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The revised directive “simply standardizes the required forms.”
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2026
It standardizes production where possible, which lowers lead times and manufacturing costs, and its boats are smaller and cheaper to run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
The latest development is a new rule that simplifies and standardizes the requirements for retrofits, said URM program manager Amanda Hertzfeld.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
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
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
Jonathan Glater, a UC Berkeley law professor who helped write UC’s 2020 faculty task force report on standardized testing, also addressed regents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Patients, however, rarely describe symptoms using standardized medical terminology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
The CDC has not yet included the Pennsylvania deaths in its national tally while it reviews the records and develops standardized criteria for classifying measles deaths.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
During World War II, the U.S. issued standardized designs to multiple producers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Sophie’s frustration during high school stemmed from the Nazis’ new standardized school curriculum.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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
He rebels against all that would cripple individual effort and against all modern standardizing whether it applies to the choice of a profession or to the cut of a garment.
From Knut Hamsun by Hanna Astrup Larsen
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