legitimate
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The foundation recommended ballot curing programs that speed up the process by utilizing a secure text platform when double checking whether a ballot is legitimate when a voter’s signature doesn’t match state records.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2026
The IRS is pursuing cases in audits that look more like tax avoidance than legitimate planning, advisers said, such as people who set up trusts just before selling their company.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
It essentially yanked TPS overnight and refused to give a legitimate justification.
From Slate • Jun. 25, 2026
Alan Blinder, a Princeton economics professor who served as Fed vice chair, said Greenspan had a "legitimate claim to being the greatest central banker who ever lived."
From Barron's • Jun. 22, 2026
One day, Farmer promised himself, attached to the clinic would be a legitimate hospital, with equipment as good as anything found in a developed nation.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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