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A third group make technical modifications to "legitimize" the phone, allowing it to re-enter the market.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

They appeared on “The Tonight Show” and “The Carol Burnett Show,” and were among the first crews to legitimize the art form by making a living from it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

In the ancient Near East, the image of God was used to legitimize power of the divinity of kings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

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

“Having the same last name legitimizes our family status it seems,” Glatzel said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

No peer-reviewed, published scientific research legitimizes this "syndrome," as one #CatTok user spelled out.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

But today no major medical association legitimizes excited delirium.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

It argued that the web designer’s victory in that case legitimizes the termination of a female counselor who is married to another woman due to the high school’s freedom of speech.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023

Confiding in the sanctity of a tie which her religion legitimizes, she is aware that we must conceal it from the eyes of the world, like any secret marriage.

From French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Paul Avril

“StubHub legitimized a business that had historically been run by bad actors,” said Randy Nichols, an artist manager and music-industry consultant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Some opposed the measure, though, arguing it legitimized illegal businesses and could give the city a reason to keep them around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

The genre doesn’t need to be legitimized by awards voting bodies because it already has a growing army of dedicated viewers, curious enough to roll the dice and spend their hard-earned cash on risk-taking filmmaking.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2025

The court is where these ideas are hatched, and it is legitimized in ways that allow Miller to go all out, 110 percent, every time.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025

At least as important, King morally and politically legitimized a youth-led agenda of confrontational social change that would define one of the most crucial decades of the American Century.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Rather than serving as "an impartial chronographic work," the researchers suggest it may instead have functioned as "a legitimizing canon of kings, which was periodically updated to remove short-lived or parallel Neo-Assyrian rulers."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Luis Rivera, executive director of the nonprofit, said Measure CB risks legitimizing the illegal cannabis industry while linking city finances to the tax revenue the businesses would generate.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

The French historian Ernest Renan identified the tension between a nation-state’s need for a legitimizing narrative and the often ugly truths of its actual past.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026

Yet the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior had the unexpected effect of legitimizing Greenpeace in the eyes of many people around the world.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton