Examples of legitimacy in a Sentence
the legitimacy of the military dictatorship was not recognized by most other nations
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The West Virginia native became the face of female boxing in the mid-1990s, covering Sports Illustrated and helping to bring attention and legitimacy to the sport.
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Esther Zuckerman, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
But Kennedy has already propagated an insidious revolution within the agencies under his control, using a playbook familiar to illiberal leaders—culling expertise, silencing critics, and weaponizing administrative procedure to grant a veneer of legitimacy to his actions.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Oversight today occupies a space of liminality — the threshold between legitimacy and irrelevance, between promise and abandonment.
—Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
As astronomy embraced mathematics and observation during the Scientific Revolution, astrology increasingly lost its scholarly legitimacy and was pushed to the margins.
—Christopher P. Scheitle, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
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Esther Zuckerman, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
But Kennedy has already propagated an insidious revolution within the agencies under his control, using a playbook familiar to illiberal leaders—culling expertise, silencing critics, and weaponizing administrative procedure to grant a veneer of legitimacy to his actions.
—Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Oversight today occupies a space of liminality — the threshold between legitimacy and irrelevance, between promise and abandonment.
—Hansel Alejandro Aguilar, Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2025
As astronomy embraced mathematics and observation during the Scientific Revolution, astrology increasingly lost its scholarly legitimacy and was pushed to the margins.
—Christopher P. Scheitle, The Conversation, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Legitimacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legitimacy. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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legitimacy
noun
le·git·i·ma·cy
li-ˈjit-ə-mə-sē 
: the quality or state of being legitimate
Legal Definition
legitimacy
noun
le·git·i·ma·cy
li-ˈji-tə-mə-sē
: the quality or state of being legitimate
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