legitimacy
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Defending the decision to host, Thai Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow told reporters: "It's not about legitimacy, it's about reality."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Ballmer was the perfect deep-pocket partner to fund Catona’s flagging operations and lend legitimacy to Catona’s carbon credit business,” says the amended complaint viewed by The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
But survival isn’t legitimacy, and aggression isn’t strength.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Prentice said the case "should not be used to cast aspersions on their work or the legitimacy of their roles at Cambridge".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Pascal and Boyle both ‘won’ this argument in so far as they succeeded in casting doubt on the legitimacy of appealing to substances whose existence might be theoretically convenient but could not be demonstrated experimentally.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing legitimacy
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