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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

The result was uncertainty for legitimate businesses and, more important, an environment that would encourage the development of more FTXs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It states that people are more likely to experience institutions as legitimate when they believe they have been heard, treated with dignity, and given meaningful information about the process.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

One program said the photo was the work of AI, while another determined it was legitimate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I walk out on the roof and look for a legitimate way down this time.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

“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

Altogether, they called for cocktails, smashes, toddies, cobblers, juleps, and legitimates.

From Manuel Pereira by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

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

From Salon ● May 7, 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

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

John of Gaunt, by his third wife Katharine Swynford, left four children, born before his marriage with her, but legitimated by act of parliament.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

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

And I can pinpoint that there had always been a black presence as people were building and creating in legitimating these branches of medical study and practice.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 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

We are not legitimating their views by asking them questions, nor by publishing their answers; we are doing the work of reporting.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2022

Hence, in both parties concerned, a variety of reasons, contemptible in our eyes, excellent in their own, against legitimating their connection.

From The Countess of Albany by Vernon Lee