bona fides
Example Sentences
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Peluso further bolstered her salsa bona fides when she teamed up with a pair of Caribbean music legends over the last year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Instead, Lodge, who goes by Cabot, picked up an HP-12C financial calculator and never looked back, perhaps with an eye to resurrecting the family’s business bona fides.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
For older voters, he has Kennedy bona fides.
From Slate ● Jun. 18, 2026
I asked Schenck whether he thought Suozzi used living at C Street to establish his bona fides with a minister known then as a right-wing evangelical.
From Salon ● May 29, 2026
I could not, and no longer did, question the bona fides of such men and women.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
