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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
naturalize .
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Examples
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While Jack's love for Janet temporarily "naturalizes" him, a forgotten arrangement with a poacher during Jack's citified phase precipitates his death--by precipitating him off an icy ridge--and causes Janet to collapse in raving madness, not soothed by the arrival of their illegitimate child.
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While Jack's love for Janet temporarily "naturalizes" him, a forgotten arrangement with a poacher during Jack's citified phase precipitates his death--by precipitating him off an icy ridge--and causes Janet to collapse in raving madness, not soothed by the arrival of their illegitimate child.
Haweswater 2008
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He doesn't try to replace one vision by another but subtly transforms, "naturalizes" an older symbolic mode entirely.
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As I cannot stress enough, when one "naturalizes" certain attitudes, trends or ideas, and combines the idea of "natural" with "good", the results are not very pretty.
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But the 14th amendment also provides that there is no difference between somebody born in the US, and someone who naturalizes: a citizen is a citizen.
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I pointed out that when she naturalizes, neither her name, nor her ideology, nor her education, will change.
Matthew Yglesias » Veronique de Rugy is So Anti-American That She’s Not Even an American! 2010
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While this invocation naturalizes the Trinitarian formula of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, it doesn't wholly abandon it.
Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by Michael Dirda 2010
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It naturalizes like no other, making blooming size babies in a heartbeat.
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I love the little species too and have a couple of patches of the Golden Bells and a lot of patches of N. canaliculatus, that one naturalizes rapidly.
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Farabi naturalizes prophecy by having the emanated forms received by the imagination pass on to the senses and then out to the air.
Arabic and Islamic Psychology and Philosophy of Mind Ivry, Alfred 2008
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