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legitimize

[li-jit-uh-mahyz] / lɪˈdʒɪt əˌmaɪz /


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Making the case to other nations helps legitimize the mission and its necessity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

While an MoU is no more than a non-binding agreement, the pact built on both countries’ efforts to legitimize quantum computing.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

That authority must be used to heal—not to legitimize practices that medicine itself has rejected.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

With such blatant motives, the press can either interrogate this relationship or help legitimize it.

From Salon • Jan. 5, 2026

Thus they legitimize a profoundly anachronistic reading of the dispute between Hobbes and Boyle by placing their own view of that dispute into the mouth of Hobbes.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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