illegitimate
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The company says that it is “especially concerned about the use of A.I. to help individual humans or small groups gain unprecedented and illegitimate forms of concentrated power.”
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026
Years of decay have left oil fields, pipelines and refineries in disrepair, with investors wary of sinking large sums and signing deals with a government led by Rodríguez that is widely viewed as illegitimate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
Meta and YouTube strongly deny the allegations, and also unsuccessfully argued on Friday for the judge to declare statements comparing their platforms to tobacco and other addictive products to be illegitimate.
From Barron's • Feb. 7, 2026
Viewers eventually learn Sophie’s servitude is forced after her parentage is revealed — she’s the illegitimate daughter of an earl.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026
The strong programme insists that it is illegitimate to say that the explanation for the second belief is that it is right, or even that people believe it because they have good evidence for it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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