How to Use legitimacy in a Sentence

legitimacy

noun
  • This is the opening move in a longer war against the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a whole.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 May 2023
  • The meeting with Biden could bestow greater legitimacy on the crown prince’s plans and his path to the throne.
    Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • The meeting with Biden could bestow greater legitimacy on the crown prince’s plans and his path to the throne.
    Ellen Knickmeyer, Chris Megerian, Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2022
  • The origins of this conflict are hard to trace, and the legitimacy of the rival claims is hard to assess.
    Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Here's a list of some of the scandals that have made Thomas the face of judicial ethics reform and a drag on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
    Peter Weber, theweek, 12 Jan. 2024
  • This is not the first time Combs’ team has attempted to challenge the legitimacy of the video.
    Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Slow down to check the legitimacy of your feelings under the feisty Aries moon.
    USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The drama in House of the Dragon stems from the succession of the Iron Throne, which brings up a lot of questions of legitimacy.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 July 2022
  • Here's a list of some of the recent scandals that have made Thomas the face of judicial ethics reform and a drag on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The record, of course, would come in a Week 17 game, so arguments can be had about its legitimacy.
    Ryan Morik, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025
  • As long as there has been a monarch in this country — for more than a 1,000 years — there have been questions about the legitimacy of the monarchy.
    Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • There can be some kind of legitimacy as to why somebody is very evil.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Yet there was no question then of the legitimacy of the court appointments, as there is now.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Some observers point to Bush v. Gore as a key event in the Supreme Court’s eroding legitimacy.
    New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • And then there's Shaw Medical, who sort of has the face of legitimacy, but has been disgraced.
    Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2022
  • At the time, according to TMZ, the legitimacy of their courtship was unclear.
    Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The bots, Innes said, piled onto posts about Kate’s health with comments talking up the legitimacy of the Russian vote.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The Supreme Court of the United States has moved in a direction that has weakened its own legitimacy.
    Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Palace intrigue, and questions of succession and legitimacy, were of course a huge part of Game of Thrones, but far from the only part.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Make no mistake, the Supreme Court faces a crisis of legitimacy.
    Travis Andersen and, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But with the playoffs on the horizon, these are games that help establish a team’s legitimacy.
    David Moore, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The question of the legitimacy of the peasants’ uprising was one of the most consequential debates of the era.
    Michael Bruening, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • But anyone who may have doubted the legitimacy of Douglas’ comeback should see her on the vault.
    Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The United States was already on the verge of a legitimacy crisis before the election.
    Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
  • That’s what gives FIDE legacy and legitimacy, and none of us are going after that.
    Ben Church, CNN, 18 Mar. 2025
  • In similar fashion, the leak has dislodged much belly-aching about the legitimacy of the Court.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
  • The change would further help heighten the questions of legitimacy that arise in House of the Dragon amid the squabble for succession.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 July 2022
  • But the county refused to accept its legitimacy and went to court.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Of course, in the age of conspiracies and widespread scepticism, questions have been raised around the legitimacy of his age.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • Such an admission not only upsets the conventional framing of the war, but strikes at the very heart of the Vietnamese Communist Party’s own legitimacy to govern the country.
    Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025

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