Example Sentences

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None believed that Jongen’s presence had legitimized his ideas; he hadn’t been awarded an honorary degree.

From The Guardian • Oct. 31, 2017

But women’s lives in the West also rarely fit with the nineteenth-century ideology of “separate spheres” that had legitimized the exclusion of women from the rough-and-tumble party competitions of public politics.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Mr. Langner is among the experts who expressed fear that the attack had legitimized a new form of industrial warfare, one to which the United States is also highly vulnerable.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2011