legitimatized
Example Sentences
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This comically highfalutin self-presentation would be familiar to Kraftwerk, the German act that, in the seventies, legitimatized electronic music, sending an enduring shock wave through popular culture.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
And the popularity of the match legitimatized his new persona: at the time, De La Hoya vs.
From The New Yorker ● May 18, 2015
It’s unfortunate that Sony reacted to the hacking as it did, since North Korea has now been legitimatized in a new way: as a cyberwar threat.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2014
Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the Premier from whom the colonels took power, stated at the trial that no less a figure than former King Constantine had legitimatized the junta's rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
Quebec is the only Province in the Dominion of Canada where a child born out of wedlock is legitimatized by the subsequent marriage of the parents.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe
