Example Sentences

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Mitchell’s arrival has legitimized the Cavs, who barely missed the playoffs last season with the one of the league’s youngest rosters.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2022

In setting up this office, Congress has legitimized the long-ridiculed topic of UAPs.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 19, 2021

After two papacies of philosophically precise rigidity, Pope Francis, in just two years, has legitimized an alternative.

From Time • Sep. 22, 2015

And the Times has legitimized other Ramparts stories that might have gone unnoticed.

From Time Magazine Archive

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