bona fides
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I asked Schenck whether he thought Suozzi used living at C Street to establish his bona fides with a minister known then as a right-wing evangelical.
From Salon • May 29, 2026
Recently, before SpaceX announced it was listing on Nasdaq, Friedman shared her space bona fides with me: “When I grew up, for a while I wanted to be an astronaut,” she said.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Bloom’s first foray into crime fiction nails the genre’s conventions while her bona fides as a recently retired professor of English and psychotherapist in mid-state Connecticut make this book resonate as spot-on, hilarious truth.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Turner’s sailing bona fides were legit long before his mogul ones.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
I could not, and no longer did, question the bona fides of such men and women.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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