bona fides
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Despite his bombastic rhetoric, Iran watchers said he has in the past demonstrated some pragmatism, which, combined with his regime bona fides, could position him as a viable interlocutor.
“He has revolutionary bona fides,” said Sherman.
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.
The best proof of the Pistons’ rough-and-tumble bona fides comes from the admiration they’ve won from the crosstown hockey club.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
