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verb

past tense of naturalize

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Recent Examples of naturalized
Adjective
For naturalized citizens, the stakes may be even higher. Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 This could upend the application process for green card holders hoping to become naturalized citizens. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025 But the tech world is dominated by Americans and people who’ve become naturalized Americans. Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for naturalized
Verb
  • The 4-2-3-1 formation has been one of the most prominent systems used across Europe since the turn of the century, adopted by some of the best tacticians in modern football.
    Mark Carey, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In keeping with the change in temperatures and tones this season, Kristen Stewart has now adopted a new look.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Israeli military is accustomed to incredibly close cooperation with the US, which has been on full display repeatedly throughout the war.
    Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Real Housewives‘ children weren’t the only cast members accustomed to the limelight, as Ava Dash, daughter to Damon Dash, also took part in the series.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The monoclonal antibody drug tegoprubart attempts to do this by blocking a pathway used by immune cells to communicate and organize an attack against the transplanted beta cells.
    Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The clinical focus sits on direction and angulation so transplanted hair blends with natural whorls.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This process is akin to how humans have domesticated plants and animals for millennia.
    Shraddha Lall, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Parrots may be kept as pets, but they are not domesticated animals such as cats or dogs.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And Fisher believes the situation warrants an even stronger response, under which his team would be authorized to kill wolves that are clearly habituated to hunting and eating only domestic animals.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • These sediments, the researchers observed, had low bacterial diversity compared to other surrounding sediments, and the bacteria came from families habituated to alkaline environments, such as deep-sea hydrothermal vents or alkaline hot springs.
    Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Erie Canal and its adjacent feeder rivers and reservoirs likely enabled two voracious nonnative species, the Atlantic sea lamprey and alewife, to enter the Great Lakes ecosystem.
    Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The eel, along with other invasive species, are gaining more of a foothold in the southeastern United States, causing concern among resource and wildlife managers, along with state and local agencies tasked with minimizing adverse effects of nonnative plants and animals.
    Wesley Bruer, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Most notably, every penny appropriated by Congress is dispensed by the OMB, making the agency a potential choke point in a federal bureaucracy that currently spends about $7 trillion a year.
    Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 18 Oct. 2025
  • In late July, a longer list of Republican and Democratic senators urged White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to swiftly give CDFI the funding that Congress appropriated for it.
    Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Throughout the scoring process, Middleton familiarized himself with the world of wilderness therapy and the troubled teen industry.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Walmart said that ChatGPT will learn and predict customers' shopping needs aimed at creating a more convenient experience — a move away from the traditional dynamic of a search bar returning a long list of items, which has been familiarized by Amazon .
    Matthew J. Belvedere,Paulina Likos, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Naturalized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/naturalized. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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