routinize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to develop into a regular procedure.
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to reduce to a customary procedure.
He seems happier now that his life is thoroughly routinized.
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It is a highly routinized but complex process.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
These change agents have also been acting as a source of hope and aspiration for young workers who face precarity and the drudgery of routinized work.
From Salon ● Apr. 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
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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