Baruj Benacerraf

While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

Venezuelan Scientist

Jane Green

When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American.

English Author

Rupert Murdoch

I was born in Australia and am proud of my Australian provenance, but I am now an American. Like so many naturalized citizens, I felt that I was an American before I formally became one.

American Publisher

Peter Bergen

Mohammed Taheri-Azar, a naturalized U.S. citizen hailing from Iran, crashed his SUV into a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006, injuring nine people.

American Journalist

Bharati Mukherjee

I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, which means that, unlike native-born citizens, I had to prove to the U.S. government that I merited citizenship.

Indian Writer

Olivia De Havilland

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.

American Actress

Naturalize in this context refers to an official legal process involving an application and approval.

Legal Process

Becoming a naturalized citizen usually takes several years; it's not an instant change.

Not Instant

Often, naturalization includes a ceremony where new citizens swear allegiance to their new country.

Ceremony

Naturalizing to a new environment is a survival mechanism for plants and animals, including humans.

Survival Mechanism

When a species naturalizes in a new environment, it can disrupt the local ecosystem.

Environmental Impact

Naturalization in biology often occurs without human intervention; it's a natural adaptation.

No Human Action

Naturalizing often involves changing something artificial to seem genuine or less forced.

Authenticity Matters

Naturalizing character might mean blending different cultural elements successfully.

Cultural Blending

 take live for six months in Hungary to become naturalized so I left him behind I'd get all of these stories from the farmer I left him to say that I was taking all the farm dogs and chased a rider for half a day we're going to have to send a taxi to pick them all up

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 lightweight transparent membrane which when inflated becomes uninhabitable pavilion air that becomes structural supporting a fragrant crown of eucalyptus leaves and a tapestry of Spanish moss transforming its interior interior into a naturalized atmosphere

Creating biologically...

 shot a thing called a black light torch which produces uv light and there on the wall glistening in the dark were hundreds of little scorpions european scorpions have naturalized at a couple of sites in the uk it they were

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 And I naturalized as a citizen. I'm a first-generation citizen. And I felt that, as an American citizen, I must take my share of the responsibility for the murder of my son. Why? Because it was fired by an American child.