legitimize
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Making the case to other nations helps legitimize the mission and its necessity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 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
There’s nothing inherently dangerous about them, except this: Zero-dated options enshrine and legitimize gambling behaviors, which have always existed in markets, though rarely this level.
From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025
Many Eurasian states and empires had official religions that contributed to state cohesion, being invoked to legitimize the political leadership and to sanction wars against other peoples.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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