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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
His rulers had tried to educate him, they had tried to Germanize him and to teach him "to embrace a Saxon because he was the other half of an Anglo-Saxon."
From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie
The common people wish only to Germanize 'Angela' when they call her 'Angel.'
From The Progressionists, and Angela. by Bolanden, Conrad von
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 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 Park, Robert Ezra
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