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Medical records belonging to a man killed by a tiger at Yorkshire Wildlife Park may have been accessed "without a legitimate reason" by staff at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, a spokesperson has said.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

“There is no legitimate basis for any suggestion that she has violated any law concerning her citizenship status,” says the letter, which was viewed by the Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Many have legitimate, beneficial uses, like archiving web data.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2026

To plan their own investments and shield other customers, utilities are trying to filter out legitimate projects from wannabes by imposing higher electricity rates, longer-term contracts, collateral requirements and steep fees for engineering studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

There is of course a legitimate concern about reducing complicated phenomena to simple numerical scales or statistics.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

“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," said I, "necessity legitimates my advice; for it is the only way to save our lives."

From The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

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

From Salon ● May 7, 2020

Sometimes efforts to appease racism in the electorate have deprived fascists of support; in other cases they have legitimated fascism.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2017

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

Mr. Kirsch identifies two recent changes that reflect a legitimating shift in attitudes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Egypt will pursue its own interests given the importance of securing the Egypt-Sinai border, but Cairo can also play an important leadership role, leading the Arab governments in legitimating any deal.

From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2023

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

Cæsar himself became cardinal, September 20, 1493, the stain of his birth having been removed by the Cardinals Pallavicini and Orsini, who had been charged with legitimating him.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius