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"The system was almost built with the assumption that the person that was making a copyright strike claim was legitimate," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“That was a funny part I laughed at,” he noted — but he still had to read them, just in case any seemed legitimate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

“I’m a legitimate business and highly regulated,” said Ashton, whose store has operated in the city for 13 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Huskeys provides an essential gatekeeper layer that addresses that, Fletcher said, citing Blackstone’s own investor portal as an example: Blackstone needs to keep its website accessible to legitimate users while protecting confidential data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to colour over his failure to keep his word.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

“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

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

From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

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

When Wade says he couldn’t admit what happened to him because his success and well-being in many ways legitimated the story of his entire family’s fragmentation and even his father’s suicide—that makes sense to me.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2019

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

He could not endure being hindered of anything that was his, except by an authority which had legitimated to his intelligence its right to command.

From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

Mr. Kirsch identifies two recent changes that reflect a legitimating shift in attitudes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

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

So she sat in her own room and devised fifty expedients for legitimating her acquaintance with the interesting unknown.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various