naturalize

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

Seck prodded François Hollande, then the president, to naturalize 28 of the African riflemen in 2017.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 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

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 amendment reads in part, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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

“You are, I see, a naturalized American subject?”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie

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

The plants spread by branching rhizomes and will seed in when happily situated, easily naturalizing under trees and large shrubs.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 4, 2023

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

Provision has therefore been made for removing their disqualifications, or for naturalizing them; that is, for investing them with the rights and privileges of natural born citizens.

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young