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- verb Alternative spelling of
naturalize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb adopt to another place
- verb adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment
- verb make more natural or lifelike
- verb make into a citizen
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Examples
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Nay, it may be said, the flower of all the Universe (de l'Univers) is eligible; for in these very days we, by act of Assembly, 'naturalise' the chief
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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"naturalise" them, seeing them not as magical intrusions into the natural world but as intelligible results of the workings of that world, the upshot of millennia of small variations, comparative advantages, adaptations, and thence survival.
Darwiniana nemo 2010
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Governor Mitt Romney mimicked Bachmann's non-position but expanded on her business-friendly caveat of wanting to naturalise highly-skilled immigrants.
The lost cause of Newt Gingrich's immigration gambit | Rodrigo Camarena 2011
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The security forces have had to recruit and naturalise foreign Sunni Muslims – some of whom are decried as mercenaries – to make up the numbers.
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Close students of how markets work will not be surprised to learn that such expertise, coupled with the notorious difficulties of persuading snowdrops to establish and naturalise, mean each tiny bulb can sell for £25 or even £30.
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To naturalise a foreign book is to lose what is most valuable about it: the spirit of the language, the mental ethos out of which the text emerges
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To naturalise a foreign book is to lose what is most valuable about it: the spirit of the language, the mental ethos out of which the text emerges
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The new neuro-social-sciences are the latest of many attempts to naturalise the human---to make every aspect of our lives and selves comprehensible merely as subjects of scientific explanation.
Archive 2009-05-24 William Harryman 2009
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The new neuro-social-sciences are the latest of many attempts to naturalise the human---to make every aspect of our lives and selves comprehensible merely as subjects of scientific explanation.
Jane O'Grady - Can a machine change your mind? William Harryman 2009
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To naturalise a foreign book is to lose what is most valuable about it: the spirit of the language, the mental ethos out of which the text emerges
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