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bona fides

[boh-nuh fahy-deez, boh-nuh-fahydz, boh-nah fee-des] / ˈboʊ nə ˈfaɪ diz, ˈboʊ nəˌfaɪdz, ˈboʊ nɑ ˈfi dɛs /




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He is on the flag football roster of Team Wildcats alongside NFL quarterbacks and captains Joe Burrow and Jayden Daniels, so inquiring minds can evaluate Paul’s gridiron bona fides during the three-team flag fun televised at 1 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times

Later paintings and prints are used to illustrate the historical events that solidified the samurai’s military bona fides.

From The Wall Street Journal

The best proof of the Pistons’ rough-and-tumble bona fides comes from the admiration they’ve won from the crosstown hockey club.

From The Wall Street Journal

Considered an unremarkable man, lacking the charisma and the religious bona fides of his predecessor — and with the country emerging from a bruising eight-year war with Iraq — Khamenei did not come with an ambitious plan for change at first.

From Los Angeles Times

He was “perceptive, meticulous, and scrupulous,” Mr. Ireland writes, and came by his revolutionary bona fides honestly.

From The Wall Street Journal