naturalize

The people who are inside prisons naturalize them as much as people on the outside.

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

Nearly a dozen of my cousins left their native-born countries to come to the U.S. and eventually naturalize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2025

She applied to naturalize as soon as she became eligible, she said, because she wanted to vote in November.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2024

Currently, more than 9 million lawful permanent residents are eligible to naturalize, meaning they could gain citizenship in time to vote in the November elections.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

The social and technological process by which we establish facts becomes invisible to us because we naturalize it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In effect, the movie naturalizes the urban environment.

From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

Hamaguchi likes to stack the narrative decks, and he’s fearless about folding in contrivances, which he naturalizes by not overworking them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

A staunch proponent of tighter immigration policies, the SVP says Switzerland naturalizes more foreigners than any other European nation, and official figures seem to support that claim.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1958, he was naturalized as an American citizen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Birthright citizenship comes from the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads, in part, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2026

The 14th Amendment states that "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

Duggan, a naturalized Australian citizen, faces extradition to the U.S. and denies the allegations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

“You are, I see, a naturalized American subject?”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

That proposal to introduce something like an essay, I can’t see doing anything but trying to raise the level of intimidation and an effort to discourage people from naturalizing when they might otherwise be eligible.

From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2025

According to Global Overseas Adoptees’ Link, the group that assisted me in my reinstatement process, adoption agencies actively discouraged adoptive parents from maintaining Korean citizenship for their children while naturalizing them in their new countries.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022

Nearly six years since entering its embassy, Ecuador recently ramped-up efforts to secure Mr. Assange’s exit, including naturalizing him late last year after London refused Quito’s request to grant him diplomatic status.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 23, 2018

Many here point to France and the United States as examples of countries that have benefited from naturalizing athletes who were born abroad.

From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2017

Nor is the idea unpleasing, which shows itself in various parts of these papers, of naturalizing American bottoms, and American citizens in France and in its foreign possessions.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson