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illegitimate

[il-i-jit-uh-mit, il-i-jit-uh-meyt] / ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt ə mɪt, ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt əˌmeɪt /


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Illegitimate or not, Visible activated the accounts and ported the numbers in the first place.

From The Verge • Feb. 23, 2022

To illustrate this diversity, I profile twenty famous U.S. anti-authoritarians in Resisting Illegitimate Authority.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2019

The most prominent of these, “The Call to Resist Illegitimate Authority,” was written by intellectuals and first published in The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2017

Q. Illegitimate Grandson: I found out that I have a 5-month-old grandson.

From Slate • Sep. 11, 2012

Illegitimate children become legitimate by the subsequent marriage of their parents.

From Legal Status of Women in Iowa by Wilson, Jennie L. (Jennie Lansley)




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