legitimately
Example Sentences
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For constitutional meaning to be legitimately popular, it must belong to everyone.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Fery, a virtually unknown British wild card with a triple-digit ranking, has become the emotional heartbeat of Wimbledon while legitimately diverting some national attention from England’s World Cup quest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026
Laura Phillips, defending, told the court that between 2007 to 2017 it was a business that had been operating legitimately "before it became dishonest".
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
These things are hilarious because screenwriters Christina Friel and Connor Wright clearly approached the script by trying to make everything legitimately funny, instead of assuming that provocation immediately equates to humor.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Although Copernicus, Galileo and Newton were well aware that their ideas were momentous, and we can legitimately describe their work as revolutionary, they never explicitly said to themselves, ‘I am making a revolution.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
