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naturalize

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

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

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

Like all the bulbs mentioned here, Triteleia naturalize and spread in the garden.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2022

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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