naturalizing
present participle ofnaturalize
naturalize
verb[T]
(UKusuallynaturalise)uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl.aɪz/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.rə.laɪz/to make someone alegalcitizenof acountrythat they were notbornin:
a naturalized UScitizen
She haslivedinAustraliafor alongtime, andrecentlyshe was naturalized.
Countries, nationalities & continents: country & nation
- birthright citizenship
- body politic
- BRICS
- citizen
- coast
- countrywide
- cross-border
- domestic
- domestically
- dual
- dual citizen
- motherland
- non-domestic
- non-indigenous
- non-national
- noncitizen
- nuclear power
- statehood
- stateless
- superpower
Examplesofnaturalizing
naturalizing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This attention to the garden's artifice constantly threatens to disrupt the texts' "naturalizing" project, repoliticizing the garden and women's activities therein.
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Changes in architectural patterns both reflect cultural change and contributed tonaturalizingnew social orders.
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Yet their larger meaning and significance (and that of their counterparts,naturalizingimages), is not at all clear.
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Unless and until the problem ofnaturalizingsemantics is solved, a defense of physicalism, in particular, must rely heavily on plausibility considerations.
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The editors characterize their approach as "radical historicism," which they contrast to "naturalizing" accounts of the discipline's history.
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Here the linkage is indexical andnaturalizing, because it is mediated by a real causal linkage (dust).
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It should be noted, however, that we do not share his goal ofnaturalizinglegal theory.
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The effectiveness of metaphors bothnaturalizingand humanizing relies on the existence of common assumptions about the object of comparison.
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By our lights, without a solution to the problem of "naturalizingsemantics" we cannot clinch the case for physicalism (see sect. 2.6 of the target article).
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This is implied when he talks about 'naturalizing' on something:naturalizingon generic empirical science or naturalizing on some specific science, such as cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology or sociology.
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To whom, in such provinces and villages, they would give houses, lands, and estates so that,naturalizingthemselves there, they should become perpetual teachers and their children after them.
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The bulbs were passed from neighbor to neighbor,naturalizingby the beginning of the 20th century.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The management hired entertainers and comedians and the corporation was transformed into an animal and plantnaturalizingcompany.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The colonies had no process fornaturalizingthem as subjects, and citizenship had not been fully defined.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.To this end he began a policy ofnaturalizingthe party, relaxing its discipline, and moderating its sectarianism.
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