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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Anybody who meets with him and gives legitimacy is wrong.
    — NBC News, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Bryce, Omari and Adam also talk the legitimacy of the Victor Wembanyama hype train.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The couple has been fighting over the legitimacy of the agreement and whether it was signed before or after they were legally married in 1992.
    — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 9 July 2024
  • Anger about the decision prompted critics on the left to question the court's legitimacy.
    — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • And now that these other bastards are coming in and taking the dragons, that is sort of threatening Jace in a way of legitimacy.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
  • These omissions undermine the legitimacy of the A.P. course and the College Board itself.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Some fans worry the out-there antics can detract from the legitimacy of the genre or overshadow newer bands.
    — Tamlin Magee, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Public support for the court and its overall legitimacy are already at all-time lows.
    — Jessica A. Schoenherr, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • That only confirmed the sense of a crisis of legitimacy.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Noreika asked the parties to submit legal briefs on the legitimacy of the deals offered to Hunter Biden within 30 days.
    — Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Second, of course the decision undermines the legitimacy of the court.
    — Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2023
  • The intensity of the training, and the achievement, lent legitimacy to the whole endeavor.
    — Elise Hammond, CNN, 29 June 2024
  • For the Kremlin, a resounding first-round win will give the incumbent a fresh stamp of legitimacy and sends a clear message: Putin’s war on Ukraine has the full backing of his people.
    — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Much of the conversation touched on the legitimacy of the proposal’s safeguards, determining when collection will stop and where the money will go.
    — Tim Clouser | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Oct. 2024

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