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Vacaville vice mayor Michael Silva said the city has been receiving AI-generated public records requests, which are slowing its ability to respond to other legitimate requests submitted by residents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

"We value and protect human creators, and that is why we have announced we will launch a consultation on how we address these harms, while protecting legitimate innovation", the spokesperson said.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

"Sino-Iranian trade relations are legitimate and China will safeguard its economic sovereignty."

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

Government has a legitimate role in protecting rights, enforcing contracts, punishing fraud and preserving the conditions of ordered liberty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

It was an awkward but legitimate question for one Persian to ask another.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

“But someone like Carlson is also important because he legitimates those ideas, making them seem less radical when viewers see them.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2022

“Selling them solidifies and legitimates the selling of our trauma,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2021

“When ‘winning’ becomes everything, and winning means dehumanizing the other side for short‐term gain, it legitimates increasingly extreme behavior on both sides,” Mr. Drutman said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2020

Blight is only partly right, in that the greatest threat to our society is a collective ignorance that legitimates forms of organized forgetting, modes of social amnesia, and the death of civic literacy.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2020

"Well then," says I, "necessity legitimates my advice, for it is the only way to save our lives."

From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes by Daniel Defoe

The market was legitimated by its own success, as experienced in people's daily lives.

From Salon ● May 7, 2020

When Wade says he couldn’t admit what happened to him because his success and well-being in many ways legitimated the story of his entire family’s fragmentation and even his father’s suicide—that makes sense to me.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2019

No. No, the only absolutely clear legacy of JFK’s slaying is that it legitimated the conspiracy theorists.

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013

The end of the legitimated spammers in a double bind of filtering and changes to the law was one rumble in spam’s tectonic shift toward an almost wholly criminal domain.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013

Mary, however, was not legitimated, and not only came after Edward, but also after any children Katharine might bear.

From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume

When their daughter became Elizabeth I in 1558, she restored Anne’s title and Anne’s image joined the legitimating Tudor lineup that proliferated in the long galleries of Elizabethan and Jacobean England.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

And I can pinpoint that there had always been a black presence as people were building and creating in legitimating these branches of medical study and practice.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023

"After legitimating his position in broader Israeli circles, he will proceed to the realms that not all agree on - namely the West Bank," Asa-El said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2022

We are not legitimating their views by asking them questions, nor by publishing their answers; we are doing the work of reporting.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2022

So she sat in her own room and devised fifty expedients for legitimating her acquaintance with the interesting unknown.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various