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Noun
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So do expressions of concern and declarations of illegality by democratic countries.—
Richard Fontaine,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026 -
These works, among others, challenge visitors to consider how LA and São Paulo have criminalized their most vulnerable citizens but also demonstrate how Brazil’s discourse on social rights and illegality is unique.—
Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2026
Noun
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But in a court-martial, a service member who argues that an order is unlawful has the burden of proving its unlawfulness.—
Joshua Kastenberg,
The Conversation,
16 Dec. 2025
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Many people at Harvard and elsewhere feared that the university would reach a deal with the Administration before Judge Burroughs’s decision, because that would have meant that no court would declare the unlawfulness of the Administration’s actions toward academic institutions.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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An air of illegitimacy, particularly in the face of febrile nationalism, will undermine the new rulers.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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Instead, events appear to lie in political opportunism in the wake of an election marred by flaws and allegations of illegitimacy.—
John Joseph Chin,
The Conversation,
1 Dec. 2025
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“Wrongfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongfulness. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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