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However, Alice’s presence forces Rebecca to reevaluate how legitimate an ally she is to other women.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

Concerns about water and energy use by data centers are legitimate, said Shaolei Ren, a UC Riverside engineering professor who studies AI.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

“That was a funny part I laughed at,” he noted — but he still had to read them, just in case any seemed legitimate.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

Mr. Stier raises legitimate concerns about fertilizer and trade policy, and the complex agricultural supply chains they affect.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Challenges to the system will be easily absorbed or deflected, and the accommodations made will serve primarily to legitimate the system, not undermine it.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

“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

Such an admission legitimates the conclusion, on empirical grounds, that our present mode of life must cease with the dissolution of our organism.

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

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

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

He could not endure being hindered of anything that was his, except by an authority which had legitimated to his intelligence its right to command.

From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

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

"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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 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