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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of Hispanicize.

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Examples

  • Apparently the neighborhood (which was always pretty lower-middle-class) has been Hispanicized.

    Matthew Yglesias » Rich Lawyers Boosting Traffic Jams and Calling It Charity 2009

  • So, after being Christianized and Hispanicized, many indigenous people assumed Christian given names and Spanish surnames.

    Tracing Your Indigenous Roots in Mexico 2008

  • So, after being Christianized and Hispanicized, many indigenous people assumed Christian given names and Spanish surnames.

    Tracing Your Indigenous Roots in Mexico 2008

  • Public education may be crumbling in many of our cities, but if American schoolchildren are still taught history at all, they probably do know that on this day, five hundred and seventeen years ago, Christopher Columbus (they will not know that this Hispanicized Genoese sailor, born Christoffa Corombo, knew himself as Cristóbal Colón) made landfall in the Western hemisphere.

    Jesse Larner: Some Thoughts on Columbus Day 2009

  • The unlikely partners will open a chain of "Sanctuary City Diners" which will serve Hispanicized versions of suburban Anglo comfort food, such as Meatloaf Asado and Pot Pie de Birria.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Huntington portrays Miami, which is 60 percent Hispanic, as a city that has been Hispanicized '' without precedent in the history of major American cities.

    Immigration Conflagration 2006

  • Clearly, what is going to happen is that's going to be completely his Hispanicized.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2006 2006

  • Clearly, what is going to happen is that's going to be completely his Hispanicized.

    CNN Transcript Aug 28, 2006 2006

  • This eventually became slurred and contracted to “CabOtha-kee,” which was then finally Hispanicized to “CabOctubre,” which of course was “Cape October” in English.

    Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

  • This eventually became slurred and contracted to “CabOtha-kee,” which was then finally Hispanicized to “CabOctubre,” which of course was “Cape October” in English.

    Alice in Jeopardy Ed McBain 2005

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