naturalize
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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
Currently, more than 9 million lawful permanent residents are eligible to naturalize, meaning they could gain citizenship in time to vote in the November elections.
From Washington Times • Jul. 15, 2022
Abramovich gained Portuguese citizenship in 2021 thanks to a law that offered to naturalize the descendants of Sephardic Jews who were forced to leave the Iberian Peninsula centuries before.
From Seattle Times • May 26, 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
Vocabulary lists containing naturalize
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