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Domestic sales are normalizing from a high base amid persistent market headwinds, while companies with foreign exposure face rising competition and policy risks that could squeeze margins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

In other words, many are normalizing what is not normal at all.

From Salon • May 5, 2025

More senior women are normalizing a once taboo topic in the office: menopause and its annoying side effects.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2024

“We need Qatar,” Guzansky said of Israel, noting that other Arab countries increasingly have interests in Israel and are normalizing their relations.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 27, 2023

Many of these differences are, of course, due to the fact that the editors are normalizing the spelling, but on different principles: many others, however, are due to the extraordinary difficulty of the MS itself.

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.