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Betts, meanwhile, said he wants to spend time with his newborn child — as legitimate a reason as any.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

They also route legitimate emails to trash so only the fraudster’s voice gets through.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

A foreign ministry statement said Riyadh "continues to support the brotherly Yemeni people and their legitimate government."

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

The paper has done its own polling, which it says suggests that only 24% of the people it surveyed in south-east England believe Burnham's rise to power has been "legitimate".

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Since their fears are legitimate, I need to let them keep their anonymity.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

“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

Blight is only partly right, in that the greatest threat to our society is a collective ignorance that legitimates forms of organized forgetting, modes of social amnesia, and the death of civic literacy.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2020

“Well, then,” says I, “necessity legitimates my advice, for it is the only way to save our lives.”

From Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel

The market was legitimated by its own success, as experienced in people's daily lives.

From Salon ● May 7, 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

That he is brewing something against the legitimated princes, and that he will profit by this to take away some more of their privileges.

From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Dumas père, Alexandre

As sociologist David Garland argues, their litigation strategy had the “unintended effect of legitimating capital punishment” and being a force for its conservation.

From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2024

"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

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

Medicalization can be a boon to people afflicted with a previously unnamed or unrecognized condition, giving them access to care and legitimating their suffering.

From Time ● Apr. 5, 2014

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

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