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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

Many more permanent residents in such battleground states are likely to naturalize in coming years.

From New York Times • Jan. 2, 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