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Dr Manjeet Shehmar, NUH medical director, previously said there was "simply no excuse for accessing the records of a patient without a legitimate reason".

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

There would be no guarantees that those watching illegally today would take out legitimate subscriptions tomorrow.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Blake Grupe has kicked for two NFL teams, but never for a legitimate contender.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

“There is no legitimate basis for any suggestion that she has violated any law concerning her citizenship status,” says the letter, which was viewed by the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Most likely Holmes forged the envelopes or else duped Emeline into preparing them by persuading her they would be used for a legitimate purpose, perhaps for Christmas cards.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

“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

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

The first marquess of Hamilton had a natural son, Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick, who was legitimated in 1600 and was ancestor of the lords Bargany.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

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

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