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

Sometimes, the best way to demonstrate your interpreter bona fides is by getting along with a filmmaker who’s notorious for being difficult.

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

American Jews, exhausted by the nonsensical charge of disloyalty, have bent themselves into impressive contortions to demonstrate their bona fides as unambiguous, undivided, thoroughly unadulterated Americans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

Hence it’s not surprising that climbers are typically wary of joining forces with those whose bona fides are unknown to them.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer