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This outing is, clearly, an homage, but by the end I have concluded that it is simply an art project, which is a fully legitimate reason to do something.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Other legitimate questions for the parents, their attorney and their financial adviser: “If you needed $600,000 for care five years from now, where would that money come from?”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

"It's really doing harm to relationships with the United States, and there's a certain amount of legitimate fear," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Museums of course have legitimate security concerns, especially in and around such a high-traffic location.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Now the black market is so much healthier than the legitimate economy I’ve seen people use zaires for repairing cracks in their walls.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

“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 fast horse, then, is aesthetically fortunate, in that the canon of pecuniary good repute legitimates a free appreciation of whatever beauty or serviceability he may possess.

From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

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

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

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013

The end of the legitimated spammers in a double bind of filtering and changes to the law was one rumble in spam’s tectonic shift toward an almost wholly criminal domain.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 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

When their daughter became Elizabeth I in 1558, she restored Anne’s title and Anne’s image joined the legitimating Tudor lineup that proliferated in the long galleries of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

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

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

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

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