legitimate

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These websites closely resemble legitimate ticketing and checkout platforms and can allow scammers to steal log-in credentials, personal information and credit card numbers and trick you into sending in payments.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

He told BBC Radio 4 Today programme it was "absolutely legitimate to talk about immigration in the context of national security".

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

We’re supposed to believe that this is still a legitimate settlement between two adverse parties?

From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026

To be sure, there is a legitimate conversation to be had about how to improve election administration — including funding, staffing, technology and public communication.

From Salon • Jun. 6, 2026

Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander