Example Sentences

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Luis Rivera, executive director of the nonprofit, said Measure CB risks legitimizing the illegal cannabis industry while linking city finances to the tax revenue the businesses would generate.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Renewed U.S. government interest and new quantum AI models from Nvidia are legitimizing the quantum computing space.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

Yet the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior had the unexpected effect of legitimizing Greenpeace in the eyes of many people around the world.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

With their followers losing faith, Jeff and Shaleia needed a way to keep them in the labyrinth; hence, a new mythology legitimizing their supposedly divinely mandated matchmaking.

From Salon • Nov. 11, 2023

And so his texts played a decisive role in legitimizing the new post-Kuhnian history of science because they were wrongly read as endorsing a thoroughgoing relativism.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton