Example Sentences

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The market was legitimated by its own success, as experienced in people's daily lives.

From Salon • May 7, 2020

Sometimes efforts to appease racism in the electorate have deprived fascists of support; in other cases they have legitimated fascism.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2017

The graffiti is first; Klara’s more culturally legitimated art comes after.

From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2015

No. No, the only absolutely clear legacy of JFK’s slaying is that it legitimated the conspiracy theorists.

From Time • Nov. 19, 2013

Of all the late King's legitimated Children his Majesty seem'd to be fondest of this.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von