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One program said the photo was the work of AI, while another determined it was legitimate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

"I cannot continue as a business with 10,000 emails a day that are not concerned with my legitimate business," she added.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Also: “Has the new CEO been accepted as a legitimate leader of the organization by internal and external stakeholders—by employees, by customers, partners, banks, and so on?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The legitimate firm said in a statement on its website that "neither the vehicle nor any of the individuals involved has any connection whatsoever with Fuel2U", adding it was cooperating with the police.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

“But someone like Carlson is also important because he legitimates those ideas, making them seem less radical when viewers see them.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2022

In his book Pyramids of Sacrifice, Berger writes that the "elite almost invariably legitimates its privileged position in terms of alleged benefits it is bestowing or getting ready to bestow upon 'the people.'"

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2021

“Selling them solidifies and legitimates the selling of our trauma,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2021

“When ‘winning’ becomes everything, and winning means dehumanizing the other side for short‐term gain, it legitimates increasingly extreme behavior on both sides,” Mr. Drutman said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2020

The sovereign will and pleasure of the individual becomes the only rule of conduct, and lawless anarchy the condition which it legitimates.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

Moreover, this attack on the welfare state and common good is increasingly legitimated and normalized through tyrannical forms of education in a variety of sites, especially in the broader cultural sphere.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2020

Sometimes efforts to appease racism in the electorate have deprived fascists of support; in other cases they have legitimated fascism.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2017

No. No, the only absolutely clear legacy of JFK’s slaying is that it legitimated the conspiracy theorists.

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013

The end of the legitimated spammers in a double bind of filtering and changes to the law was one rumble in spam’s tectonic shift toward an almost wholly criminal domain.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013

On the other hand was the Duke du Maine, an acknowledged son of the king—the legitimated son of Madame de Montespan.

From Louis XIV. Makers of History Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

When their daughter became Elizabeth I in 1558, she restored Anne’s title and Anne’s image joined the legitimating Tudor lineup that proliferated in the long galleries of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

"After legitimating his position in broader Israeli circles, he will proceed to the realms that not all agree on - namely the West Bank," Asa-El said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2022

Please stop legitimating him by booking and interviewing him as if anything he says is valuable.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

On a larger scale, the educational force of the wider culture has been transformed into a spectacle for violence and trivialized entertainment, and a tool for legitimating ignorance.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2017

Possibly he anticipated no difficulty in legitimating Mary while annulling her mother's marriage—as was ultimately done.

From England under the Tudors by Arthur D. (Arthur Donald) Innes