bona fides
Example Sentences
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Peluso further bolstered her salsa bona fides when she teamed up with a pair of Caribbean music legends over the last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Instead, Lodge, who goes by Cabot, picked up an HP-12C financial calculator and never looked back, perhaps with an eye to resurrecting the family’s business bona fides.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
For older voters, he has Kennedy bona fides.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
Hence it’s not surprising that climbers are typically wary of joining forces with those whose bona fides are unknown to them.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
