nationalize
Example Sentences
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They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”
Senior officials in Mossad and the Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic intelligence service, wanted to nationalize the company so that it could continue selling its products to Israeli intelligence.
From New York Times
The US has no such nationalized approach, and US healthcare providers typically lack information on resources they can provide for lonely patients.
From Salon
Some, like nationalizing the fossil fuel industry — which would effectively neutralize the sector's outsize political influence and allow it to be dismantled in an orderly fashion — have not yet entered the political mainstream.
From Salon
Ms. Scanlon called the legislation a “stunning act of federal overreach that would essentially nationalize our education system.”
From New York Times
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