legitimate

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

Therefore, City say the sponsorship amounts were legitimate and not topped up by the owners.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

Yandex did experience a crash in bot activity, but at least some of that traffic seems to be legitimate.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

It was a legitimate sound of home, one that would remind the Meecham children of their youth more strongly than the singing bells of ice cream trucks or the cadences of lullabies.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

“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

In his book Pyramids of Sacrifice, Berger writes that the "elite almost invariably legitimates its privileged position in terms of alleged benefits it is bestowing or getting ready to bestow upon 'the people.'"

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2021

“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

And if it is labor that creates wealth and legitimates property, how explain the consumption of the idler?

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

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

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

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

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

I don’t think I am legitimating an administration when I say I approve of this action in this country.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2017

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