How to Use legitimacy in a Sentence

legitimacy

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  • This is the opening move in a longer war against the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a whole.
    — The Editors, National Review, 8 May 2023
  • The meeting with Biden could bestow greater legitimacy on the crown prince’s plans and his path to the throne.
    — Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
  • The origins of this conflict are hard to trace, and the legitimacy of the rival claims is hard to assess.
    — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Here's a list of some of the scandals that have made Thomas the face of judicial ethics reform and a drag on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
    — Peter Weber, theweek, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Slow down to check the legitimacy of your feelings under the feisty Aries moon.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
  • The drama in House of the Dragon stems from the succession of the Iron Throne, which brings up a lot of questions of legitimacy.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 July 2022
  • Here's a list of some of the recent scandals that have made Thomas the face of judicial ethics reform and a drag on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The record, of course, would come in a Week 17 game, so arguments can be had about its legitimacy.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025
  • As long as there has been a monarch in this country — for more than a 1,000 years — there have been questions about the legitimacy of the monarchy.
    — Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
  • There can be some kind of legitimacy as to why somebody is very evil.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Some observers point to Bush v. Gore as a key event in the Supreme Court’s eroding legitimacy.
    — New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • At the time, according to TMZ, the legitimacy of their courtship was unclear.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The bots, Innes said, piled onto posts about Kate’s health with comments talking up the legitimacy of the Russian vote.
    — Christian Edwards, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The Supreme Court of the United States has moved in a direction that has weakened its own legitimacy.
    — Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Palace intrigue, and questions of succession and legitimacy, were of course a huge part of Game of Thrones, but far from the only part.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Make no mistake, the Supreme Court faces a crisis of legitimacy.
    — Travis Andersen and, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But with the playoffs on the horizon, these are games that help establish a team’s legitimacy.
    — David Moore, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But anyone who may have doubted the legitimacy of Douglas’ comeback should see her on the vault.
    — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2024
  • The United States was already on the verge of a legitimacy crisis before the election.
    — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The change would further help heighten the questions of legitimacy that arise in House of the Dragon amid the squabble for succession.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 July 2022
  • But the county refused to accept its legitimacy and went to court.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Most of them, according to the Times’s own criteria, don’t deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election at all.
    — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Does the matter of legitimacy around the fights, or safety, come up in your discussions when planning them?
    — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • One other sign of legitimacy is to offer the voter an off-ramp.
    — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Anybody who meets with him and gives legitimacy is wrong.
    — NBC News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • By calling on his followers to side with Khamenei, al-Haeri brought on a crisis of legitimacy for al-Sadr.
    — Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • More than 70 percent of the candidates who have the Trump endorsement this year deny the legitimacy of the last election.
    — ABC News, 22 May 2022
  • Bryce, Omari and Adam also talk the legitimacy of the Victor Wembanyama hype train.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
  • But even those who take the opposite view will be hard pressed to defend the legitimacy of U.S. power if it is not used to defend Taiwan.
    — David Rieff, The New Republic, 24 May 2022
  • Book purists may not find these efforts enough to convince them of the production’s legitimacy.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2024

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