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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
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
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 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 Barney, J. Stewart (John Stewart)
"Who is at this moment seeking to Germanize his estates," interposed the princess, gravely.
From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
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
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
Suffice to say that in no modernized or Germanized form does the legend attain such an exquisite colouring of heroic poetry as in these earliest fragments of Icelandic song.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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 Murray, Gilbert
He was suspected of "Germanizing" tendencies, very offensive to high churchmen, especially in philosophy and religion.
From Lectures and Essays by Smith, Goldwin
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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
It rendered forever impossible a return to Germanizing centralism.
From The Governments of Europe by Ogg, Frederic Austin
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