How to Use legitimacy in a Sentence

legitimacy

noun

• 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 meeting with Biden could bestow greater legitimacy on the crown prince’s plans and his path to the throne.
  — Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2022
• 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
• Slow down to check the legitimacy of your feelings under the feisty Aries moon.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
• The drama in House of the Dragon stems from the succession of the Iron Throne, which brings up a lot of questions of legitimacy.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 July 2022
• 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
• The record, of course, would come in a Week 17 game, so arguments can be had about its legitimacy.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 1 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Some observers point to Bush v. Gore as a key event in the Supreme Court’s eroding legitimacy.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• 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
• The Supreme Court of the United States has moved in a direction that has weakened its own legitimacy.
  — Fareed Zakaria, CNN, 1 Oct. 2022
• Palace intrigue, and questions of succession and legitimacy, were of course a huge part of Game of Thrones, but far from the only part.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2022
• 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
• The United States was already on the verge of a legitimacy crisis before the election.
  — Robert A. Pape, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024
• In similar fashion, the leak has dislodged much belly-aching about the legitimacy of the Court.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
• The change would further help heighten the questions of legitimacy that arise in House of the Dragon amid the squabble for succession.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 13 July 2022
• But the county refused to accept its legitimacy and went to court.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 6 Oct. 2022
• Most of them, according to the Times’s own criteria, don’t deny the legitimacy of the 2020 election at all.
  — Barton Swaim, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• One other sign of legitimacy is to offer the voter an off-ramp.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2024
• The draft opinion also brought a wave of criticism from outside experts about the legitimacy of the court.
  — Eve Ringsmuth, The Conversation, 18 May 2022
• Anybody who meets with him and gives legitimacy is wrong.
  — NBC News, 4 Dec. 2022
• By calling on his followers to side with Khamenei, al-Haeri brought on a crisis of legitimacy for al-Sadr.
  — Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Samya Kullab, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022
• The appeal over his legitimacy remains for Nauta and De Oliveira.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
• But this is a misguided use of the language of science to give a sheen of legitimacy to unscientific claims.
  — Shoumita Dasgupta, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 30 Jan 2025