naturalize
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Five years later, Omar became a U.S. citizen via a law in which minors are eligible for citizenship once their parents naturalize.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
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
The New Americans Initiative was launched under former Mayor Eric Garcetti during the first Trump administration and built on a previous Path to Citizenship program that offered classes to people eligible to naturalize.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
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
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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
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He is also accused of lying on his application to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, when he claimed to have never falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen in the past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000, under a law that makes minors eligible for citizenship when their parents are naturalized.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026
My father, an unschooled sawmill worker, was a naturalized citizen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Quiñones’ unit led a separate effort to find additional cases by reviewing whether people who’d recently become citizens had voted before they were naturalized, then lied about it in naturalization interviews.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Is he a naturalized American citizen or native born?”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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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
Most bulbs are perennial, naturalizing to form colonies.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2016
We were called unfaithful for not naturalizing ourselves, when naturalization means only that we should give up our original citizenship and get nothing in return, and become subject to disabilities.
From The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs by Sir Percy Fitzpatrick
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