legitimatized

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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

Thus in 1908 the Alliance was "legitimatized" and made a "Department" of the American Federation of Labor, under the name of the Building Trades' Department, with the settlement of jurisdictional disputes as its main function.

From A History of Trade Unionism in the United States by Perlman, Selig