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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

But Chinese citizens cannot naturalize, so the 35-year-old teacher has been considering a move to Japan, where he might eventually marry his Chinese partner.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

"I'm not entirely sure that is something that can be done in a way that doesn't reinforce or naturalize inequalities."

From Salon ● Apr. 9, 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

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

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

My father, an unschooled sawmill worker, was a naturalized citizen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Nearly a quarter of naturalized citizens live in California, but enough live in swing states such as Nevada or even Georgia to make a difference in those elections.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

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

First, an act of naturalization, whereby the power of naturalizing foreigners was placed in the governor.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Robert Beverley


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