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Recent Examples of legitimization
Acknowledging that most civil law now permits legitimization after the fact, some jurisdictions still discriminate against a child born out of wedlock.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
Live Aid was the final step in the legitimization of MTV.
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Tom Freston,
Vulture,
28 Oct. 2025
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
7 Mar. 2026
Live Aid was the final step in the legitimization of MTV.
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Tom Freston,
Vulture,
28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for legitimization
Noun
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In August 2025, attorneys filed an emergency petition for legitimation and custody in DeKalb County Superior Court.—
Zachary Bynum,
CBS News,
18 Dec. 2025
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As such, placing Israel first actually can be understood as a legitimation of Israel’s violence.—
Esther Brito Ruiz,
The Conversation,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The interventions that might genuinely extend healthy lifespan meaningfully are a decade or more from clinical validation, let alone commercialization.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
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Readers were presented with a lengthy retelling of a sole critic who argues that blue zones are built on flawed demographic assumptions, questionable age validation, and statistical anomalies.—
Torie Bosch,
STAT,
20 June 2026
Noun
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Early legalization attempts, such as clinical consumption lounges, largely failed to create authentic social environments, mistakenly trying to force cannabis into existing molds.—
Peter Su,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Table tennis remains one of the most popular sports for Colorado gamblers to bet on, with $989 million wagered since legalization.—
Noelle Phillips,
Denver Post,
18 June 2026
Noun
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Laws represent the formalization of these rules, but their effectiveness depends on whether they can be understood, interpreted, and applied by those who live within them.—
Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2026
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In a typical math paper, lemmas — simpler results that help build toward the proof of a larger theorem — might be about 20 lines long, but for the PFR formalization, Tao broke the proof down into five-line lemmas.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
8 June 2026
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“Legitimization.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legitimization. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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