How to Use legitimize in a Sentence

legitimize

verb
Definition of legitimizenext
Synonyms for legitimizenext
  • Allure legitimized it with a fun video, and Cosmo cosigned the trend as well.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Critics have long contended that Fox legitimized the election lies.
    — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
  • In Malaysia, as in other places across Southeast Asia, elections had been deployed only to legitimize those in power.
    — New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Anne accompanied Henry to France, a move that legitimized her position as his partner.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 25 May 2018
  • The other big reason Team Moneybags needs its own captain is to legitimize the operation.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
  • With that in mind, any Eagle who goes to the White House should know that such a visit further legitimizes the disturbing presidency of Trump.
    — Marcus Hayes, Philly.com, 20 May 2018
  • All of this has the potential to legitimize these results as viable evidence for conspiracy theorists questioning the outcome of the election.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In the current state of online discourse inside our own internet echo chambers, a game’s producer directly catering to their fans misplaced outrage only legitimizes them.
    — Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The Missing, by looking that pain dead in the eye, legitimizes it.
    — Julie Muncy, The Verge, 8 Nov. 2018
  • And then the czar stuff, is that at every point Putin has tried to legitimize himself.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The concert struck a blow for racial progress and helped legitimize jazz as a music with deep roots and inarguable worth.
    — John Edward Hasse, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2018
  • But others say that this would legitimize the stronger party.
    — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The victory vaulted the Spartans into the top 150 of the NET rankings and helped legitimize them to the public.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2022
  • That was the lightning bolt that legitimized this franchise.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 4 May 2020
  • The families didn’t need to hear the news to legitimize their late fathers and grandfathers.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Bottom line here is this: Utah no longer has to play to legitimize its entire program.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • And in the minds of millions, including some of those who sacked the Capitol, those outlets helped legitimize the groundless fraud claims.
    — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Part of me still wanted Dylan to legitimize my creative work, or at least my choice to pursue it.
    — Sam Sussman, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2021
  • On the path Since last year, Figueroa-Figueroa had been on a path to legitimizing her immigration status and right to work.
    — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Coins are small vessels through which a state can legitimize itself.
    — Gail Fletcher, National Geographic, 28 June 2019
  • And someone could start a revolution with the materials at hand, one that is sort of legitimized by the gloss that the sphere gives.
    — Bridget Read, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2018
  • The president will sit at a table legitimizing the regime.
    — Fox News, 10 June 2018
  • Revolver helped legitimize the local pop-up scene and served as a launching pad for numerous chefs.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 24 Dec. 2019
  • One thing that West has accomplished in the past decade is helping to legitimize dilettantism.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The fact that the victim is making payments of principal and interest might legitimize the claim.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The fact that the victim is making payments of principle and interest might legitimize the claim.
    — cleveland, 6 Mar. 2020
  • But, like so many facets of the GOP, the company has legitimized radical voices in recent years.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Elon Musk helped legitimize cryptocurrencies in the eyes of Wall Street investors.
    — Anchalee Worrachate, Fortune, 18 May 2021
  • Demonstrating self-care and balance needs to be a priority at the top of the house for it to be legitimized throughout the organization.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Either way, the adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel about life in a theocratic future America was good enough to legitimize Hulu as more than a dumping ground for next-day network shows.
    — Alex Galbraith, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024

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