as in to enable
to make something real, accepted, or official
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In the current state of online discourse inside our own internet echo chambers, a game’s producer directly catering to their fans misplaced outrage only legitimizes them.
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Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2024
Critics have long contended that Fox legitimized the election lies.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
But in the 1970s when criminal profiling and psychoanalysis were considered fringe science, even woo-woo, Dr. Ann Burgess was leading the charge to legitimize this field of study.
—Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 11 July 2024
Allure legitimized it with a fun video, and Cosmo cosigned the trend as well.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024
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Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2024
Critics have long contended that Fox legitimized the election lies.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
But in the 1970s when criminal profiling and psychoanalysis were considered fringe science, even woo-woo, Dr. Ann Burgess was leading the charge to legitimize this field of study.
—Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 11 July 2024
Allure legitimized it with a fun video, and Cosmo cosigned the trend as well.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 24 Sep. 2024
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“Legitimize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/legitimize. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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