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Macron said a distinction must be drawn between the "legitimate demands" of protesters and "those who destroyed, smashed and looted".

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

Medical records belonging to a man killed by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park may have been accessed "without a legitimate reason" by staff at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, a spokesperson has said.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 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

None of this would be a mystery to a young ethnographer-doctor who was able to sort out superstition from legitimate symptoms of illness.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

“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 sovereign will and pleasure of the individual becomes the only rule of conduct, and lawless anarchy the condition which it legitimates.

From Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject by E. N. Elliott

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

This Prince married Anne Countess of Orselska, the legitimated Daughter of the late King.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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

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

Please stop legitimating him by booking and interviewing him as if anything he says is valuable.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

Plainly, it is not a known premise legitimating a result, not a sound argument proving a conclusion: it is merely a conceit, devised to explain and fortify a theory already embraced from other considerations.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger