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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

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

The fee to naturalize would have risen from $640 to $1,160 for online applications, with an additional $10 for a paper application.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 3, 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

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 opening words of the 14th Amendment of 1868 say: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 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

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

If your tulips were labeled naturalizing or perennializing, they are more likely to come back.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022

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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