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[stan-der-dahyz] / ˈstæn dərˌdaɪz /


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Companionship services are fragmented, hard to standardize, and vulnerable to safety concerns.

From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 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

Once collected, platforms, such as Palantir’s Maven, standardize, tag and score all the data, linking it to identities across devices and accounts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

The industry pledged last year to standardize electronic submissions and deliver at least 80% of decisions in real time by 2027, part of a broader push to ease administrative burdens and improve transparency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 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

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

It also standardizes fast-charging technology and gives consumers the right to choose whether to buy new devices with or without a charger.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 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

High blood pressure was also almost 50% more common among men than women, with age standardized rates of 42% and 29%, respectively.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

She now represents a central Austin district in the Texas House, where she’s worked on a wide set of education issues, from directing more tax dollars to neighborhood public schools to curbing standardized testing.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

“A lot of this is going to have to be effectuated through policy if we want to see this standardized across the labs,” Purser added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

Rao’s company has pioneered a work flow software program with a standardized format that makes the outsourcing of tax returns cheap and easy.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman

By standardizing NIL regulations, the legislation would allow student athletes to monetize their NIL rights while providing necessary oversight through a mandatory reporting system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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

"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

McTaggart sees real potential for AI in the administrative side of agency work — organizing offers, standardizing contracts, aggregating sales data.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

No one who has not made a study of cutting tools can realize the crying need for standardizing in that field.

From The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste by Lillian Moller Gilbreth




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