Verb (used with object), : He seems happier now that his life is thoroughly routinized. From Dictionary.com.
Over my objections, California enacted AB 682 last year, which removed the legal requirement of post- and pre- test counselling in California, in an attempt to "routinize" HIV testing in the state. From Wordnik.com. [NYC Health Dept Proposes HIV Testing Every Bronx Adult] Reference
Clerical workers fear that computers will further routinize their jobs. From Wordnik.com. [Humanizing TechnologyA Business Challenge] Reference
Placing a link to the FDLpedia on every comment would routinize its charisma. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Jump Right On] Reference
FERRE: So what health officials are trying to do is really routinize this testing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2008] Reference
No, this is all about heightening the fear level of the American people, to routinize us to living in a police state. From Wordnik.com. [I Was a Victim of the Government's Absurd and Over-Hyped War on Terror] Reference
You have to routinize some aspects of it "chunk" the task, if you will, or it's impossible to perform the whole task. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Habits] Reference
My aim in all this isn't to routinize our meals even further, it's to provide myself with a framework for meal planning. From Wordnik.com. [Week 3 - Sunday - Routines and Rituals :: Rebecca Blood] Reference
Even where risks are necessarily present, we seek to routinize the process of risk assessment and risk management through techniques such as cost-benefit analysis. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
In the case of 9/11, the Commission recommendations were to “routinize” and “put in place systems” and “provide a framework” for analyzing improbable scenarios. From Wordnik.com. [The Elegant Solution] Reference
If the kids are more similar, obviously they would tend to have more similar learning patterns, and you can do things that sort of routinize the educational system more in the early grades. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks Of The President In Online Town Hall Meeting] Reference
In Chapter 6 we consider, on the basis of some observations from the Nordic countries, how the content, organization, and implementation of deliberate attempts to routinize comprehensive administrative reform are influenced by the institutional and historical context within which they take place. From Wordnik.com. [Rediscovering Institutions] Reference
And finally we learn, and routinize safe practices. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing the Forest] Reference
I don't see how you can routinize this model to apply to all textbooks whatever. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
R. Jonathan Sacks demonstrates that the Priestly Garments served to routinize charisma: link. From Wordnik.com. [Hirhurim - Musings] Reference
One way to bring the stakes down and to begin working toward a ceasefire would be to routinize the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Bench Memos] Reference
We, working with our international partners, particularly the World Food Program, we've been able to almost routinize the distribution of food in the greater Port-au-Prince area to the 16 sites where it is delivered on a daily basis. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
The mania with what used to be called "Assessment and Evaluation" - now reduced to the catch-all word "Assessment" - has had, as one of its toxic results, a drive to standardize, routinize, and compartmentalize the scope and sequence of curriculum across each discipline. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Wraith Forums] Reference
Third, good games create what's been called a "cycle of expertise" by giving players well-designed problems on the basis of which they can form good strategies, letting them practice these enough to routinize them, then throwing a new problem at them that forces them to undo their now routinized skills and think again before achieving, through more practice, a new and higher routinized set of skills. From Wordnik.com. [HS Blog - Homeschool Blog] Reference
"Well, first he's gotta learn to routinize.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4] Reference
It’s very hard to routinize. From Wordnik.com. [Works in progress: Jane Winn] Reference
If you'd been out there ... inside the first minute, you saw, you grew docile under its ... it really did possess a Max Weber charisma ... some joyful-and deeply irrational-force the State bureaucracy could never routinize, against which it could not prevail ... they did resist it, but they also allowed it to happen. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
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