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illegitimate

[il-i-jit-uh-mit, il-i-jit-uh-meyt] / ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt ə mɪt, ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt əˌmeɪt /


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Illegitimate or not, Visible activated the accounts and ported the numbers in the first place.

From The Verge • Feb. 23, 2022

To illustrate this diversity, I profile twenty famous U.S. anti-authoritarians in Resisting Illegitimate Authority.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2019

The most prominent of these, “The Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority,” was written by intellectuals and first published in The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2017

Q. Re: Illegitimate Half Brother Post: One issue that the letter writer needs to be aware of is that there will be tax implications of giving money to the half brother.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2012

Illegitimate operators include those treading the thin line between legally permissible and ethically inadmissible.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel




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