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Bill Shaikin writes that with the arrival of John Mozeliak as interim general manager, the Angels have legitimate hope they can finally will.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

The practice of museums collaborating with fashion houses, tapping their archives and presenting their designs, is today widespread, and fashion as a legitimate form of art is now celebrated throughout the world.

From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026

But they’re part of a growing number of self-described creatives who wield legal protections, legitimate and non, as a cudgel against others.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

Already social media is aflame with anger about privatized youth programs and the financial barriers to entry, both legitimate dilemmas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Being Madoc’s legitimate daughter, she feels no pressure to please him.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

“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

“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

One consequence is that truth, evidence and science fall prey to the language of mystification, which legitimates a tsunami of ignorance and the further collapse of morality and civic courage.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2020

Altogether, they called for cocktails, smashes, toddies, cobblers, juleps, and legitimates.

From Manuel Pereira by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

Moreover, this attack on the welfare state and common good is increasingly legitimated and normalized through tyrannical forms of education in a variety of sites, especially in the broader cultural sphere.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2020

When Wade says he couldn’t admit what happened to him because his success and well-being in many ways legitimated the story of his entire family’s fragmentation and even his father’s suicide—that makes sense to me.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2019

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

From Time ● Nov. 19, 2013

The end of the legitimated spammers in a double bind of filtering and changes to the law was one rumble in spam’s tectonic shift toward an almost wholly criminal domain.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013

The honors of the legitimated princes were restricted to the simple rank of their peerages.

From The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Dumas père, Alexandre

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

Please stop legitimating him by booking and interviewing him as if anything he says is valuable.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2017

I don’t think I am legitimating an administration when I say I approve of this action in this country.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2017

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