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  • verb Present participle of Americanise.

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Examples

  • It took several years for Rowling to allow the books to be made into films by the Warner Bros studio, for fear of "Americanising" Harry.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Darth Larry 2007

  • "Why are we Americanising ourselves, why?" he asked the official launch of the Creative Workers Union of SA (CWUSA).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Americanising England, but Americanising everything else.

    What I Saw in America 1905

  • American methods, yet a gradual Americanising of the English press is always taking place, with results on the whole admirable.

    Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Americanising this foreign element was imperative.

    The United States of America, Part 1 Edwin Erle Sparks 1892

  • They ended up in Baltimore and did everything they could to fit in including Americanising their names; his mother, Katharina, became Kate; Bukowski like his dad who was an American soldier, Henry Charles; they "also changed the pronunciation to Buk-cow-ski, as opposed to the harder European pronunciation, which is Buk-ov-ski."

    British Blogs 2010

  • President Obama's plan for troop surge in Afghanistan risks Americanising the West's intervention there at a moment when his new strategy demands internationalising and regionalising the effort.

    Telegraph Blogs 2009

  • President Obama's plan for troop surge in Afghanistan risks Americanising the West's intervention there at a moment when his new strategy demands internationalising and regionalising the effort.

    Telegraph Blogs 2009

  • President Obama's plan for troop surge in Afghanistan risks Americanising the West's intervention there at a moment when his new strategy demands internationalising and regionalising the effort.

    Telegraph Blogs 2009

  • President Obama's plan for troop surge in Afghanistan risks Americanising the West's intervention there at a moment when his new strategy demands internationalising and regionalising the effort.

    Telegraph Blogs 2009

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