Examples of legitimatize in a Sentence
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Taylor told me that the battle to legitimatize long COVID echoes her prior work as an advocate for people, her mother among them, who suffer from chronic-fatigue syndrome, a mysterious illness also characterized by brain fog, exertional fatigue, and sleep disturbances.
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Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
But, more often than not, Democrats legitimatize the G.O.P.’s crime panic.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
As Attorney General, Sessions cited the Bible verse Romans 13 to legitimatize the Trump administration’s migrant policies.
—al, 10 July 2020
By giving these like-minded traditionalists a name, Bazilian legitimatized a movement.
—Washington Post, 27 May 2020
There’s the Third Wave, once the emergency becomes imminent (the stores get crowded), and then the Fourth Wave, after city officials legitimatize the Bad Thing.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
Harcourt, a professor of history at Austin College, is particularly good at showing how anti-Klan cultural productions helped legitimatize the Klan’s views.
—Eric Herschthal, New Republic, 16 Jan. 2018
And that legitimacy and trust in terms of its consumer application will have to be legitimatized by a brand and a brick and mortar environment, where the consumer has trust and confidence in the company that is providing the transaction.
—Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2018
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Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
But, more often than not, Democrats legitimatize the G.O.P.’s crime panic.
—Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2022
As Attorney General, Sessions cited the Bible verse Romans 13 to legitimatize the Trump administration’s migrant policies.
—al, 10 July 2020
By giving these like-minded traditionalists a name, Bazilian legitimatized a movement.
—Washington Post, 27 May 2020
There’s the Third Wave, once the emergency becomes imminent (the stores get crowded), and then the Fourth Wave, after city officials legitimatize the Bad Thing.
—Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020
Harcourt, a professor of history at Austin College, is particularly good at showing how anti-Klan cultural productions helped legitimatize the Klan’s views.
—Eric Herschthal, New Republic, 16 Jan. 2018
And that legitimacy and trust in terms of its consumer application will have to be legitimatized by a brand and a brick and mortar environment, where the consumer has trust and confidence in the company that is providing the transaction.
—Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2018
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“Legitimatize.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/legitimatize. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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