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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

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

As I wrote about a few weeks ago, naturalized citizens make up about 1 in 10 eligible voters, and nearly a quarter of them live in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Omar became a U.S. citizen in 2000, under a law that makes minors eligible for citizenship when their parents are naturalized.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026

Omar, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Somalia, has repeatedly denied the allegations.

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026

The Niners basically chose to move to Australia and become naturalized citizens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Is he a naturalized American citizen or native born?”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

It’s strange, because the act of pardoning a reformed prisoner, or naturalizing a citizen, is both uniquely presidential, and for presidents, relatively routine.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2020

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

A great advance has been made at Hakgalla and Nuwara Eliya, in Upper Uva, and other high districts, in naturalizing English fruits and vegetables.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various


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