naturalize

Example Sentences

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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

I’m drawn to actors like Ted Danson and Ray Romano who naturalize the comedy.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2022

Millions more are eligible to naturalize but have not attained citizenship.

From Washington Times • Dec. 20, 2021

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