legitimize

In the ancient Near East, the image of God was used to legitimize power of the divinity of kings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Ng’s presence, first as an adviser and starting last season as commissioner, is helping legitimize the new league.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

The U.K.’s pledge to build bigger, better quantum computers can be seen as an effort to legitimize the technology.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

That authority must be used to heal—not to legitimize practices that medicine itself has rejected.

From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2026

“When I want mountains made out of molehills, when I want to legitimize their puerile actions by paying attention to them, I’ll let you know.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

“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

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

From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2024

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

A poor devil, but we receive him into our set, for he has talent—that legitimizes.

From The Argonauts by Jeremiah Curtin

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

“It legitimized my nerd-dom,” he explained with a laugh.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

The picture of Russia emerging triumphant and legitimized from such a deal is, ahem, at variance with reality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

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

As if her presence legitimized whatever was hap­pening between us—though certainly not to the same degree that the general’s would have.

From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini

Quantum companies are also legitimizing themselves by continuing to execute on the technology development milestones in their public road maps, said John McPeake, senior research analyst at Rosenblatt Securities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 27, 2026

With their followers losing faith, Jeff and Shaleia needed a way to keep them in the labyrinth; hence, a new mythology legitimizing their supposedly divinely mandated matchmaking.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2023

The reasoning is straightforward: Why take a risk of legitimizing his rivals, or becoming a target on stage, or just flubbing, when you’re already in a category of your own?

From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2023

Holt said the partnership already is legitimizing the platform in the eyes of many viewers.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 24, 2023

And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton