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Noun
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Village League representatives were assassinated by activists, and most of the Palestinian population continued to regard the PLO (and the various political factions that constituted it) as their sole legitimate representative, despite its illegality.—
Literary Hub
August 27,
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27 Aug. 2025 -
This case is a milestone in pushing back on Musk and DOGE's illegality.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Aug. 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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But those in power refuted these links and instead emphasized the disloyalty and illegitimacy of disobeying the will of the majority.—
Time,
Time,
2 July 2025
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Nan’s illegitimacy became a big subject of conversation last season when the news leaked out ahead of her engagement to Theo.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
18 June 2025
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“Wrongfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongfulness. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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