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Fighting Tyson legitimizes him even more, and if Paul’s able to win, it’s likely to propel him to a world title fight.

They want to legitimize an accounting method that allows companies to exaggerate how much recycled plastic is in their products.

In 1999, the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist movement that emerged triumphant from the Afghan civil war, wanted to legitimize themselves on the world stage as the rightful rulers of this mountainous land.

Conservative newspapers ran editorials suggesting that Im is legitimizing the North Korean dictator.

In the topsy-turvy world of the radicalized right, a willingness to publish Hitler memes has a legitimizing power.