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But said there would be "exemptions for legitimate reasons, including religious, cultural, medical, occupational, weather or personal safety reasons".

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Mr. Musk has provided his detractors with legitimate lines of attack, but when it comes to our most notable figures, even-tempered rationality becomes vital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

In another case, the audit found that a high-ranking law enforcement officer misused confidential databases to look up family members and other employees without legitimate business purposes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

This outing is, clearly, an homage, but by the end I have concluded that it is simply an art project, which is a fully legitimate reason to do something.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

But if the secret Mexico trip was the defining test of my loyalty, I really earned my stripes when my sister and her best friend turned me into a legitimate stalker.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

“But someone like Carlson is also important because he legitimates those ideas, making them seem less radical when viewers see them.”

From New York Times ● May 15, 2022

In his book Pyramids of Sacrifice, Berger writes that the "elite almost invariably legitimates its privileged position in terms of alleged benefits it is bestowing or getting ready to bestow upon 'the people.'"

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2021

“Selling them solidifies and legitimates the selling of our trauma,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2021

“When ‘winning’ becomes everything, and winning means dehumanizing the other side for short‐term gain, it legitimates increasingly extreme behavior on both sides,” Mr. Drutman said.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 5, 2020

The same reply avails, namely, that the idea of necessity is but one of our ideas, a conception of the mind, an inner notion or impression which legitimates itself alone.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

The market was legitimated by its own success, as experienced in people's daily lives.

From Salon ● May 7, 2020

Sometimes efforts to appease racism in the electorate have deprived fascists of support; in other cases they have legitimated fascism.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2017

The graffiti is first; Klara’s more culturally legitimated art comes after.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2015

No. No, the only absolutely clear legacy of JFK’s slaying is that it legitimated the conspiracy theorists.

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013

The Continental Congress at length legitimated the exploit, and as it were accepted the captured fortress.

From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving

Mr. Kirsch identifies two recent changes that reflect a legitimating shift in attitudes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

And I can pinpoint that there had always been a black presence as people were building and creating in legitimating these branches of medical study and practice.

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023

"After legitimating his position in broader Israeli circles, he will proceed to the realms that not all agree on - namely the West Bank," Asa-El said.

From Reuters ● Dec. 30, 2022

We are not legitimating their views by asking them questions, nor by publishing their answers; we are doing the work of reporting.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2022

So she sat in her own room and devised fifty expedients for legitimating her acquaintance with the interesting unknown.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various