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routinize

American  
[roo-tee-nahyz, root-n-ahyz] / ruˈti naɪz, ˈrut nˌaɪz /
especially British, routinise

verb (used with object)

routinized, routinizing
  1. to develop into a regular procedure.

  2. to reduce to a customary procedure.

    He seems happier now that his life is thoroughly routinized.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of routinize

First recorded in 1925–30; routine + -ize

Example Sentences

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See Examples For:

It is a highly routinized but complex process.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 21, 2025

Shields said she hopes some type of routinized system can be put in place to license the use of copyrighted works for use in AI systems.

From Seattle Times Oct. 11, 2023

A person with high IIV, Ram says, may be successfully adapting to a tumultuous life, while someone with lower IIV may have a predictable, routinized life and may actually be more rigid.

From Scientific American Apr. 5, 2023

In the years since that choreography was routinized, prescription drug expenditures have ballooned in the United States — to nearly $370 billion in 2019.

From Salon Oct. 21, 2021

The more he browsed the University of Chicago catalogue online, the more classes he saw that he’d like to take, and the more boring his routinized office job seemed by comparison.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

He soon thereafter announced the launch of the space shuttle program as a means of “revolutionizing transportation into near space, by routinizing it.”

From Slate Aug. 13, 2022

“It will revolutionize transportation into near space,” he said, “by routinizing it.”

From Slate Aug. 9, 2022

The Industrial Revolution had the effect of standardizing and routinizing life.

From Time Magazine Archive

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