How to Use legitimacy in a Sentence

legitimacy

noun

• The manner of those defeats calls the legitimacy of the Hoosiers’ ambitions into question.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2023
• Swickard and his supporters took every chance to prove Absaroka’s legitimacy.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2024
• Amazon has so far refused to recognize its first union and engage in negotiations after a landmark union win last spring and continues to fight its legitimacy.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• As the high court grapples with a profound legitimacy crisis, bringing transparency into its decision-making process would be good for the public – and for the court itself.
  — Raul A. Reyes, CNN, 7 Jan. 2023
• For months before the election last year, Bolsonaro cast into doubt the legitimacy of any democratic outcome that didn’t deliver him victory.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023
• This is the opening move in a longer war against the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a whole.
  — The Editors, National Review, 8 May 2023
• The origins of this conflict are hard to trace, and the legitimacy of the rival claims is hard to assess.
  — Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2023
• Here's a list of some of the scandals that have made Thomas the face of judicial ethics reform and a drag on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
  — Peter Weber, theweek, 12 Jan. 2024
• Here's a list of some of the recent scandals that have made Thomas the face of judicial ethics reform and a drag on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 21 Apr. 2023
• As long as there has been a monarch in this country — for more than a 1,000 years — there have been questions about the legitimacy of the monarchy.
  — Sarah Lyall, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• There can be some kind of legitimacy as to why somebody is very evil.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 Oct. 2023
• At the time, according to TMZ, the legitimacy of their courtship was unclear.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2024
• The bots, Innes said, piled onto posts about Kate’s health with comments talking up the legitimacy of the Russian vote.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
• Make no mistake, the Supreme Court faces a crisis of legitimacy.
  — Travis Andersen and, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• But with the playoffs on the horizon, these are games that help establish a team’s legitimacy.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• But anyone who may have doubted the legitimacy of Douglas’ comeback should see her on the vault.
  — Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2024
• Does the matter of legitimacy around the fights, or safety, come up in your discussions when planning them?
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• Bryce, Omari and Adam also talk the legitimacy of the Victor Wembanyama hype train.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 28 Feb. 2023
• The couple has been fighting over the legitimacy of the agreement and whether it was signed before or after they were legally married in 1992.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 9 July 2024
• And now that these other bastards are coming in and taking the dragons, that is sort of threatening Jace in a way of legitimacy.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
• These omissions undermine the legitimacy of the A.P. course and the College Board itself.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• Some fans worry the out-there antics can detract from the legitimacy of the genre or overshadow newer bands.
  — Tamlin Magee, SPIN, 22 Apr. 2024
• Public support for the court and its overall legitimacy are already at all-time lows.
  — Jessica A. Schoenherr, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
• Noreika asked the parties to submit legal briefs on the legitimacy of the deals offered to Hunter Biden within 30 days.
  — Xerxes Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
• Second, of course the decision undermines the legitimacy of the court.
  — Trevor Jackson, The New York Review of Books, 8 July 2023
• The intensity of the training, and the achievement, lent legitimacy to the whole endeavor.
  — Elise Hammond, CNN, 29 June 2024
• For the Kremlin, a resounding first-round win will give the incumbent a fresh stamp of legitimacy and sends a clear message: Putin’s war on Ukraine has the full backing of his people.
  — Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
• The failure to reestablish the global economic order after the First World War led to a loss of legitimacy and a search for new solutions.
  — Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
• If video games finally gain the legitimacy needed to join the Olympics, then G Fuel’s very overt aspirations to be the Gatorade of gaming will finally come true.
  — Pete Cottell, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2024
• The controversy has raised questions about the IBA’s legitimacy in recent days.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024