legitimize

The picture of Russia emerging triumphant and legitimized from such a deal is, ahem, at variance with reality.

“Seeing Peggy get her Cinderella moment legitimized her as one of the romantic leads of the show,” Benton says.

In the decades that followed, in his complementary positions as book critic and editor, Cowley worked tirelessly to legitimize the innovative writing of Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Hart Crane, E.E.

In a notable example, Cheney maneuvered to legitimize so-called enhanced interrogation in the war on terror, which critics said amounted to torture.

A genre as wide-reaching and weird as this one doesn’t need golden statues to be legitimized.