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bona fides

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Leaving aside the stereotypes that CBS’s audience is old and Vice’s is young, both companies have been playing up their international bona fides lately.

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Just ask Shipley, a YouTube detective of sorts who tracks down and exposes people who masquerade as former commandos or otherwise exaggerate their military bona fides.

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The state historically was known as a coal ash capital, a place where lawmakers touted their pro-business bona fides by denouncing regulations, and Georgia Power had a track record of delaying or blocking efforts to regulate pollution.

Strickland and her two partners all came from similar backgrounds, with extensive scientific experience but limited business bona fides.

Despite his literary bona fides, Ovbiagele didn’t do any writing until he’d left banking.

From Ozy

Proving his far-right bona fides is just one aspect of the newly energized Roberts campaign.

Why so many people are so eager to flaunt their musical bona fides by loathing Coldplay.

Better still, his military bona fides give him the kind of street cred that is rare among the political class.

For his part, Bright has been pushing his conservative bona fides.

The two-decade veteran of the House of Representatives wears his Fighting Irish bona fides with pride.

It was an instantaneous apparition of absolute bodily substance, which carried its own warrant of complete bona fides.

Miss Jessimina asked what had she done that I should be in dubitation as to her bona fides?

He declares that he wants work, honest work, and he considers that his "certificate" vouches for his bona fides.

I had impressed upon him that this was essential in order to test the bona fides of the tenderers.

Raven'll be doubting the bona fides of his own footmen and his own garden lads next.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bona fides, such as: bonne foi, pledge, promise, troth, and word.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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