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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
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 Maisie Ward
The Germans, in their effort to affect certain charming English customs and Germanize them, in the process lose the charm.
From L.P.M. : the end of the Great War by J. Stewart (John Stewart) Barney
"Who is at this moment seeking to Germanize his estates," interposed the princess, gravely.
From Vineta The Phantom City by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
It was Germanized, then Americanized, then buried under her husband’s surname.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2022
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
For you, my fellow countrymen, I have Germanized the Sermon on the Mount.
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
If used in other languages than German they certainly should not be used in their Germanized shape, and it is scarcely legitimate to use the term "Urning" in English.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion by Havelock Ellis
He was suspected of "Germanizing" tendencies, very offensive to high churchmen, especially in philosophy and religion.
From Lectures and Essays by Goldwin Smith
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
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
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