bona fides

Example Sentences

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Recently, before SpaceX announced it was listing on Nasdaq, Friedman shared her space bona fides with me: “When I grew up, for a while I wanted to be an astronaut,” she said.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

And true to Roxy’s style bona fides, the board shorts looked good enough to pair with a T-shirt.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Bloom’s first foray into crime fiction nails the genre’s conventions while her bona fides as a recently retired professor of English and psychotherapist in mid-state Connecticut make this book resonate as spot-on, hilarious truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Turner’s sailing bona fides were legit long before his mogul ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

It’s the point at which you establish your bona fides as a speaker, grab the audience’s attention, and hope to keep it.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith