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But even that conversation appears to legitimize the entire fund, as if within these “victims,” there’s a class of people that should not be compensated, but within the greater class, there are people who should?

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Making the case to other nations helps legitimize the mission and its necessity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

While an MoU is no more than a non-binding agreement, the pact built on both countries’ efforts to legitimize quantum computing.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

Flaunting their knighthood as a mark of status but discarding it the moment it requires true honor, they treat their vows only as an invented tradition, a set of rituals to legitimize their own power.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

Many Eurasian states and empires had official religions that contributed to state cohesion, being invoked to legitimize the political leadership and to sanction wars against other peoples.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

“It definitely legitimizes the entire space when you have the world’s largest and arguably one of the most important companies dropping this,” Wedbush’s Legault said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

It argued that the web designer’s victory in that case legitimizes the termination of a female counselor who is married to another woman due to the high school’s freedom of speech.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2023

“I think having them call me in and put me on the stand legitimizes my story and who I am,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2023

It really legitimizes their pursuit in Texas and it legitimizes the caliber of recruit they could get from Texas.”

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

However stupid, bad or wicked a man may have been, if he is only rude into the bargain, he condones and legitimizes all his faults.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)

Some opposed the measure, though, arguing it legitimized illegal businesses and could give the city a reason to keep them around.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

The Declaration of Independence legitimized the cause of the rebels but also empowered them to brand loyalists as traitors who could be legally sentenced to death.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026

The court is where these ideas are hatched, and it is legitimized in ways that allow Miller to go all out, 110 percent, every time.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2025

Buns, though hardly a deviation from the bathing suits I wore during summer days at the Jersey Shore, legitimized my place in an elite group of Division I runners.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2024

In any case, the one man paved the way for the deeds of the other, in a sense foreshadowed and even legitimized them.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus

He’s legitimizing its use as psychological scaffolding, which allows a person’s cognitive development to be left perpetually unfinished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

But conciliation carries the risk of legitimizing the court’s most indefensible actions.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2025

The rest of the culture was already partly there, what with our jokes identifying close co-workers as work spouses and the many TV shows legitimizing the concept of the office family.

From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2025

“The international community must approach engagement in Cambodia with enhanced due diligence to avoid unwittingly legitimizing its most pernicious actors,” said J. Daniel Sims, a transnational crime expert at the United States Institute of Peace.

From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024

The discovery of America was crucial in legitimizing innovation because within forty years no one disputed that it really was an unprecedented event, and one that could not be ignored.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton