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There were some legitimate failures here: The federal government had guaranteed $535 million in loans to the company, leaving taxpayers on the hook for a significant chunk of change.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

The court also heard how families had to go through a second funeral, with several questioning whether it had been legitimate.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

“The Odyssey” is a legitimate phenomenon and that’s terrific; more power to Nolan and the theaters that benefit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Once in, they can spot legitimate email threads about invoices and business matters.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

And this illusion is only a moderate one compared to the one I had in 1928, when I regarded myself not only as the Laughing Man’s direct descendant but as his only legitimate living one.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

“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

These connections are also encouraged by the fact, that marriage legitimates all the children previously born.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard

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

The Grand Marshal, and his Brother the Great Huntsman, are Persons capable of making a Figure with Distinction in the greatest Courts.298 The first marry'd a legitimated Daughter of the Margrave.

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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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

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

Medicalization can be a boon to people afflicted with a previously unnamed or unrecognized condition, giving them access to care and legitimating their suffering.

From Time ● Apr. 5, 2014

Possibly he anticipated no difficulty in legitimating Mary while annulling her mother's marriage—as was ultimately done.

From England under the Tudors by Innes, Arthur D. (Arthur Donald)