Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legitimating
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Gods have been especially helpful in this task of corralling the manual labor of the people and legitimizing it symbolically.—
Vanessa Taylor,
Big Think,
25 Sep. 2025 -
The university system became an important site for legitimizing claims through theories and studies.—
Sara Giordano,
The Conversation,
4 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Despite their rifts, the permanent members of the Security Council still agree on a wide range of subjects from aid operations to sanctioning jihadists.—
Richard Gowan,
Time,
22 Sep. 2025
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The entities sued the motorsport sanctioning body after declining to sign the charter agreement that NASCAR made available to teams to sign in September.—
Alex Zietlow,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The fluctuations were determined to be adiabatic and not isocurvature, further validating inflation.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
14 Oct. 2025
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Ava Danberg, another student and lead singer of the performance, said the recognition from an artist like Smith was validating as a student musician.—
Sophia Arndt,
Twin Cities,
13 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Paoletta signed off on a memo authorizing the freeze.—
Andy Kroll,
New Yorker,
17 Oct. 2025
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Employees with administrative privileges were often tricked into authorizing malicious apps, while default permission settings allowed those apps to operate undetected.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Legitimating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legitimating. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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