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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

He read Bruce E. Levine’s “Resisting Illegitimate Authority,” as well as Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s “Guantánamo Diary,” the chilling account of Slahi’s imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay under the supervision of military, C.I.A. and F.B.I. interrogators.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2021

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

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2019

Q. Illegitimate Half Brother's Inheritance: Five years ago, my sister and I discovered the existence of our father's biological son from a secret second family.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2012

Column 3: Illegitimate unions : average number of seeds per capsule.

From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles




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