legitimatize
Example Sentences
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Through these decades of controversy over expert knowledge, challengers have continually invoked the label of science, with its connotations of facts and truth, to legitimatize as well as delegitimatize public action.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2018
The Golden Bears have never beaten the Longhorns in five meetings between the two schools, and a win by Cal against a high-profile program would legitimatize the team’s 2-0 start.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 15, 2015
But anthropocentric arguments legitimatize the notion that species must justify their right to exist by proving their utility to man.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also refused to legitimatize armed struggles in southern Africa because, as U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
As Sammu-rammat was evidently a royal princess of Babylonia, it seems probable that her marriage was arranged with purpose to legitimatize the succession of the Assyrian overlords to the Babylonian throne.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
