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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

While an MoU is no more than a non-binding agreement, the pact built on both countries’ efforts to legitimize quantum computing.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

An early investment from Berkshire Hathaway helped legitimize the company abroad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026

With such blatant motives, the press can either interrogate this relationship or help legitimize it.

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2026

“We need to legitimize this situation,” he said now, balancing the ashtray on his belly.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

“It definitely legitimizes the entire space when you have the world’s largest and arguably one of the most important companies dropping this,” Wedbush’s Legault said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

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

“I think having them call me in and put me on the stand legitimizes my story and who I am,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

However stupid, bad or wicked a man may have been, if he is only rude into the bargain, he condones and legitimizes all his faults.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders

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

It was the centerpiece of a landmark Disney deal, which legitimized artificial intelligence for Hollywood royalty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

Medieval belts also managed a celebration of the pregnant silhouette, but devotion to Mary rather than patriotic “populationism” legitimized it.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2025

For Anton, the coming of Caesarism — defined as “authoritarian one-man rule partially legitimized by necessity” — appears almost historically determined.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2024

“Biko, wear something nice. Kainene will be dressing up too,” her mother had added, as if mentioning her twin sister somehow legitimized everything.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

In their eyes, it's "legitimizing everything Doug Wilson is saying and doing."

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2024

The discovery of America was crucial in legitimizing innovation because within forty years no one disputed that it really was an unprecedented event, and one that could not be ignored.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton