legitimating

present participle of legitimate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for legitimating
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fluctuations were determined to be adiabatic and not isocurvature, further validating inflation.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Paoletta signed off on a memo authorizing the freeze.
    Andy Kroll, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • 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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