legitimized
Example Sentences
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The picture of Russia emerging triumphant and legitimized from such a deal is, ahem, at variance with reality.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
“Seeing Peggy get her Cinderella moment legitimized her as one of the romantic leads of the show,” Benton says.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
A genre as wide-reaching and weird as this one doesn’t need golden statues to be legitimized.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
The court is where these ideas are hatched, and it is legitimized in ways that allow Miller to go all out, 110 percent, every time.
From Slate • Sep. 29, 2025
As if her presence legitimized whatever was happening between us—though certainly not to the same degree that the general’s would have.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
