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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

County were legal permanent residents eligible to naturalize as of May 2024, according to U.S.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 27, 2025

Currently, more than 9 million lawful permanent residents are eligible to naturalize, meaning they could gain citizenship in time to vote in the November elections.

From Washington Times Jul. 15, 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

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

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 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

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 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

That proposal to introduce something like an essay, I can’t see doing anything but trying to raise the level of intimidation and an effort to discourage people from naturalizing when they might otherwise be eligible.

From Slate Sep. 16, 2025

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

Other policies have paralyzed the system and increased chances of immigrants leaving the service without naturalizing or being cut loose early by extraordinarily stringent screening methods, Stock said.

From Seattle Times Jun. 8, 2019

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

The very improper power would still be retained by each state, of naturalizing aliens in every other state.

From The Unconstitutionality of Slavery by Lysander Spooner




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