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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
"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
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 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
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
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
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
But the greatest danger which threatened the traveler on this road, was from the German and Germanized knights of Szlonsk, whose castles were erected here and there near the boundaries.
From The Knights of the Cross or, Krzyzacy by Samuel A. Binion
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
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 rendered forever impossible a return to Germanizing centralism.
From The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
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