legitimize
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Ng’s presence, first as an adviser and starting last season as commissioner, is helping legitimize the new league.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
But even that conversation appears to legitimize the entire fund, as if within these “victims,” there’s a class of people that should not be compensated, but within the greater class, there are people who should?
From Slate • May 26, 2026
The U.K.’s pledge to build bigger, better quantum computers can be seen as an effort to legitimize the technology.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
With such blatant motives, the press can either interrogate this relationship or help legitimize it.
From Salon • Jan. 5, 2026
Thus they legitimize a profoundly anachronistic reading of the dispute between Hobbes and Boyle by placing their own view of that dispute into the mouth of Hobbes.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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