legitimize

In their eyes, it's "legitimizing everything Doug Wilson is saying and doing."

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was particularly critical, warning that Mr. Scholz’s phone call risked opening “a Pandora’s box” by encouraging more leaders to engage with Mr. Putin, ultimately legitimizing the Russian president’s position.

Fighting Tyson legitimizes him even more, and if Paul’s able to win, it’s likely to propel him to a world title fight.

They want to legitimize an accounting method that allows companies to exaggerate how much recycled plastic is in their products.

In 1999, the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist movement that emerged triumphant from the Afghan civil war, wanted to legitimize themselves on the world stage as the rightful rulers of this mountainous land.