legitimates

present tense third-person singular of legitimate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for legitimates
Verb
  • Andrew Harnik/Getty Images The Federal Circuit's most recent decision validates this concern.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Extract more value by using a solution that validates rebates and incentives, monitors customer contract compliance and prevents revenue leakage.
    Suresh Kannan, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At the same time, the Brotherhood discourages any worldly attachment that privileges one person over another person, or over God.
    Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But behind the world’s fastest-growing businesses is a quieter form of leadership—one that privileges operations over oration, systems over showmanship, and execution over ego.
    Brent Gleeson, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The agreement authorizes state police to transport immigrants who have been arrested for immigration violations.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The second financing request, for the Touro Shakespeare Project in Algiers, authorizes up to $16 million in revenue bonds to help redevelop the historic Touro Shakespeare Almshouse, a Depression-era facility that has been vacant since Hurricane Katrina.
    Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Legitimates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legitimates. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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