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legitimize

[li-jit-uh-mahyz] / lɪˈdʒɪt əˌmaɪz /


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It also helps Oklo legitimize its business model as the company doubles down on its target for the commercial production of power by 2028.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

That authority must be used to heal—not to legitimize practices that medicine itself has rejected.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

Flaunting their knighthood as a mark of status but discarding it the moment it requires true honor, they treat their vows only as an invented tradition, a set of rituals to legitimize their own power.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

“When I want mountains made out of molehills, when I want to legitimize their puerile actions by paying attention to them, I’ll let you know.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols




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