naturalize
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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
County were legal permanent residents eligible to naturalize as of May 2024, according to U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
The fee to naturalize would have risen from $640 to $1,160 for online applications, with an additional $10 for a paper application.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 3, 2023
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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Both countries already make it easier for residents to become naturalized citizens than Persian Gulf states, which have extremely restrictive naturalization policies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
This matters because naturalized citizens make up about 1 in 10 eligible voters, and their numbers continue to grow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
Ten of the 11 people arrested on Wednesday were naturalized US citizens originally from China while the other was a green card holder.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
The weapon salve was thus to be brought within the sphere of experimental science, and strange facts were to be naturalized.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The plants spread by branching rhizomes and will seed in when happily situated, easily naturalizing under trees and large shrubs.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023
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
Those are the people who are naturalizing and moving to the state.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2021
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
On the petition, in 1747, of the United Brethren to have the Act for naturalizing foreigners in North America, extended to them and other settlers who made a scruple of performing military service.
From Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Thaddeus Mason Harris
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