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naturalize

[nach-er-uh-lahyz, nach-ruh-] / ˈnætʃ ər əˌlaɪz, ˈnætʃ rə- /
VERB
confer citizenship upon
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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

But Chinese citizens cannot naturalize, so the 35-year-old teacher has been considering a move to Japan, where he might eventually marry his Chinese partner.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

Seck prodded François Hollande, then the president, to naturalize 28 of the African riflemen in 2017.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 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

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

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

Her Mexican mother was naturalized thanks to the 1986 amnesty, but her first husband struggled for years to attain legal status.

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

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Of Latin origin in that philosophia and philosophus were naturalized in classical Latin, although their origins are Greek.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

If any genius was equal to the task of naturalizing hexameters in a language where strict quantity is unknown, it was the genius of Spenser.

From English literary criticism by Various




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