legitimize
verb (used with object)
to make legitimate.
has legitimized
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present perfectof legitimize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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In setting up this office, Congress has legitimized the long-ridiculed topic of UAPs.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2021
Today the government has legitimized it into nearly 100 studios where artists like Jacques Rémus, famous for his experimental sound sculptures, pay rent to the city.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 2021
After two papacies of philosophically precise rigidity, Pope Francis, in just two years, has legitimized an alternative.
From Time ● Sep. 22, 2015
Says Gerald Early, director of African and Afro-American studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri: "Skip Gates has legitimized black studies in the mainstream."
From Time Magazine Archive
And the Times has legitimized other Ramparts stories that might have gone unnoticed.
From Time Magazine Archive
