Normalize: meaning, definitions and examples

Use this word when you want to make something standard or conform to a norm, often used in a social or psychological context.

• After a few weeks, things began to normalize at the new workplace.
• Therapy helped him normalize his daily routine.

This word is used when setting a common standard to make things consistent, often in an industrial or educational context.

• They decided to standardize the testing procedures for all students.
• The factory has standardize its production methods.

Use this term when referring to making something regular or consistent, often in terms of rules, procedures, or schedules.

• The new policy aims to regularize the work hours of employees.
• They need to regularize the company's financial reports.

This term is often used in the context of making things uniform or similar, particularly in the context of mixing substances such as milk or in social settings like populations.

• The company aims to homogenize its product line across all markets.
• Cultural programs can sometimes homogenize diverse communities.

Use 'normalize' when discussing making something standard or typical, or reducing something to a normal condition. This is often used in medical, social, or procedural contexts.

• We need to normalize remote work as a regular option
• The therapy helped to normalize her blood pressure

Use 'legitimize' when talking about making something legal, acceptable, or officially valid. This often has a formal or legal connotation.

• The new law will legitimize medicinal cannabis use
• Efforts were made to legitimize the independent committee

Use 'endorse' when referring to openly supporting or approving something, especially in advertisements, politics, or official capacities.

• The celebrity endorsed the new smartphone
• The senator decided to endorse the new policy

Use 'accept' when talking about agreeing to take or receive something, or coming to terms with a situation or fact. This is commonly used in everyday situations and personal contexts.

• She decided to accept the job offer
• It's important to accept that you can’t control everything