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The "grievances," as Montgomerie puts it, are real and legitimate, say Farage's friends.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

It’s hard to tell when, exactly, raising legitimate concern about a woman celebrity’s appearance became synonymous with your run-of-the-mill misogyny or bullying.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

The method takes advantage of normal communications produced by legitimate users connected to a WLAN.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

It is also where staff send men they label legitimate troublemakers—those with heavy disciplinary records.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

That’s when I see the legitimate sadness tugging at the corners of her mouth.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone

“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

“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

One consequence is that truth, evidence and science fall prey to the language of mystification, which legitimates a tsunami of ignorance and the further collapse of morality and civic courage.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2020

The partitioning legitimates also generously made a present of an aristocratic constitution to the suffering Poles.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

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

The graffiti is first; Klara’s more culturally legitimated art comes after.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2015

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

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013

The claim of Jesus to deal with men as their spiritual protector and leader had been legitimated by John, and no other pretended Messiah had been.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

Egypt will pursue its own interests given the importance of securing the Egypt-Sinai border, but Cairo can also play an important leadership role, leading the Arab governments in legitimating any deal.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2023

"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

James Baldwin was right in connecting the long durée of economic and racial injustice to the legitimating power of ideas and education.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2021

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

Cæsar himself became cardinal, September 20, 1493, the stain of his birth having been removed by the Cardinals Pallavicini and Orsini, who had been charged with legitimating him.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius