Example Sentences

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“Things have normalized because the tension is somewhere else.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

“Inventories have normalized to what we would normally see coming into peak season,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

In the most basic sense, they have normalized deviance and embraced antisocial and other anti-democratic values and beliefs as a function of what psychologists have described as “malignant normality”.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2023

With increased supply, Bastian said fares now have "normalized."

From Reuters • Jul. 13, 2023

When Burton spells a person's name in several ways, I have normalized the names to the most common spelling, or to modern practice if well-known.

From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Burton, Robert