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
“It was a routinized way of trying to learn the cases. Not Joe. He wouldn’t have any of that. But he had that quality which we always vaguely subsumed under ‘thinking like a lawyer.’
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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