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Outside and inside he had done his best to create something French out of the old-fashioned New York block house, but Cornelia Woodyard had Americanized his creation enough to make it intimate, livable.

From Together by Herrick, Robert

Foreigners ourselves, and mostly unable to speak English, we had Americanized the system of providing clothes for the American woman of moderate or humble means.

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham

Then, too, life in New York had Americanized my fellow-townspeople, modernized their tastes, broadened them out.

From The Rise of David Levinsky by Cahan, Abraham