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She would soon Germanize her name to Melania Knauss and become an international model.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2016
The same measures were taken to Germanize Cracow during the Austrian administration; but when in 1815 Cracow became a free city, it parted with all its German professors, and became again a genuine Polish university.
From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson
The more concrete and familiar terms are the abstract noun Americanization and the verbs Americanize, Anglicize, Germanize, and the like.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
Any interference with the use of German would be a serious blow to the cause of those who hoped to Germanize the whole empire.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
The common people wish only to Germanize 'Angela' when they call her 'Angel.'
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden
It was Germanized, then Americanized, then buried under her husband’s surname.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022
There the merchant class would presumably be set to work to build up a transformed, Germanized city.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whole area was French from the mid-18th Century until Bismarck seized it in 1871, fell to France again after World War I, and was last week being forcibly Germanized again.
From Time Magazine Archive
As long as the United Nations had that control, uninterrupted around the perimeter of the world, the best the Axis could win would be a Germanized Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
In addition, many towns were Germanized and the middle class disappeared.
From The Russian Revolution; the Jugo-Slav Movement by Robert Joseph Kerner
He was suspected of "Germanizing" tendencies, very offensive to high churchmen, especially in philosophy and religion.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
It rendered forever impossible a return to Germanizing centralism.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
But these painful controversies are not the result of our trade policy: they are incidents of natural friction with Germanizing courts or governments.
From Great Britain's Sea Policy A Reply to an American Critic reprinted from 'The Atlantic Monthly' by Gilbert Murray
It had been only these few weeks; but already the Germanizing brand of the conqueror was seared deep in the galled flanks of this typically French community.
From Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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