bona fides

Example Sentences

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Bloom’s first foray into crime fiction nails the genre’s conventions while her bona fides as a recently retired professor of English and psychotherapist in mid-state Connecticut make this book resonate as spot-on, hilarious truth.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Turner’s sailing bona fides were legit long before his mogul ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

When we met at a Starbucks a block away from City Hall, he rattled off his hometown’s bona fides: A drop in crime and homelessness.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

It’s the point at which you establish your bona fides as a speaker, grab the audience’s attention, and hope to keep it.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith