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
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
Many immigrants were moved to naturalize after the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, said Ana Maria Schwartz, an immigration lawyer in Texas.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 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
In 1958, he was naturalized as an American citizen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The terminology we use to talk about “countries” has been naturalized over centuries by the dominance of the form of the nation-state on the global political scene.
From Slate ● Jul. 4, 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
The amendment declared that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States.”
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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
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
Dr. Bigelow has had the honor of naturalizing, if not of inventing, the name of the Institute before which he delivered this address.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 by Various
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The 14th Amendment (1868)
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