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denaturalization

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[dee-nach-er-uhl-uhz-ay-shuhn, -ahyz-ay-shuhn] / diˌnætʃ ər əl əzˈeɪ ʃən, -aɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

  • denaturalizations
    plural
  1. the act or process of denaturalizing, especially the revocation of citizenship for naturalized citizens.


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In the 1950s, the Court under Warren began to tighten the rules for denaturalization on the grounds that using it as punishment for certain acts was cruel and inhuman.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

The Justice Department’s announcement came with a brag: They are “pursuing the highest volume of denaturalization referrals in history.”

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026

United States, the court refused to sustain a fraud-based denaturalization charge based on the applicant’s failure to disclose his Communist Party membership on his citizenship application because the question at issue “was not sufficiently clear.”

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2025

Yet, as concerning as these developments are, actually going through with a denaturalization is a complicated and legally fraught process.

From Slate ● Jul. 11, 2025

There is a breath of poetry over the picture, but no denaturalization of the uncultured types.

From Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas

Intellectual justice revolts from the rhetorical strainings, exaggerations, and denaturalizations of facts which the Partisan continually employs, but which the Philosopher and Historian must alike reject.

From A Trip to Cuba by Julia Ward Howe

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