How to Use bona fides in a Sentence
bona fides
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Roots bona fides, goosed with rock zeal and a chip on the shoulder.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 20 June 2022
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This November will test the Ravens' bona fides in much the same way.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2020
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Fox seemed to shore up its Trumpian bona fides after that.
—Jeremy Barr, Washington Post, 30 July 2022
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Hew might be a ghost kitchen, but its Thai bona fides are real.
—Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2021
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The Colts have proven their bona fides as legit AFC contenders.
—Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2021
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Fashion loves a first time, sure, but what made the show really one to watch were Blazy’s bona fides.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 16 Dec. 2022
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It’s the tenuity of manhood that drives men to seek ways to prove their masculine bona fides.
—Parker Molloy, Rolling Stone, 25 Apr. 2022
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Not to say that the original version didn’t have its own fashion bona fides, of course.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
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Chrissie Hynde proved the bona fides of her Bob Dylan fandom decades ago.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2021
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Even then, if your roots are in the Greater Portland area, folks living in the vast part of the state that’s north of there might still question your bona fides.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2022
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In fact, the more Kingston leans into his heel bona fides, the more some fans will embrace an edgier Eddie.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 14 Nov. 2021
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Both Murkowski and Tshibaka boast of their Alaska bona fides.
—Manu Raju and Alex Rogers, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
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Whether the young candidate’s progressive bona fides will hurt him in the runoff remains to be seen.
—Joshua Fechter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2021
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The alleged mistreatment of employees lost the Wing the feminist bona fides that had built up the brand.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
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God-knows-how-long of their ‘family values’ bona fides.
—Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2022
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Trump supporters cheered the appointment, and not just because of Durham's bona fides.
—Eric Tucker, ajc, 19 Oct. 2022
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Even celebrities seeking to burnish their eco-friendly bona fides were smitten with the car.
—Tim De Chant, Wired, 28 July 2021
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In the meantime, Yang ticked off all the boxes to establish his Communist bona fides.
—Barbara Demick, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2020
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The deal likely means Simmons will end his year-long holdout and play for the Nets soon, giving them defensive bona fides.
—Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022
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The lunch went swimmingly nonetheless, in large part because Nivola had the Italian bona fides Chase prizes.
—Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2021
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Advertisement Even with his bona fides as a tastemaker, Williams has big shoes to fill in Abloh’s absence.
—Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
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But in establishing his bona fides, his 27th season proved at least one too many.
—Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 May 2021
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Last year, a new food cart with serious smash burger bona fides rode into town.
—Michael Russell, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2021
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The sheriff touted his law-and-order bona fides, and GOP groups sought to make an issue out of Kulkarni’s drug arrest as a teen.
—Tom Benning, Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2020
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More than her cringiest assertions of woke bona fides, more than even her treatment of Steve, this is the thing that’s hardest to swallow.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
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For decades, rappers have bragged about their bona fides while denouncing rivals as phonies.
—New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022
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His tough talk -- the autocrat's calling card -- is also an emblem of his populist man-of-the-people bona fides.
—Frida Ghitis, CNN, 9 Feb. 2022
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Brands are no doubt also aware that such coolers’ survivalist bona fides are a big part of their appeal.
—Sal Vaglica, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022
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Today’s gurus aren’t defined by Wall Street bona fides.
—Akane Otani, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2021
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In two wins to open the series, the Bucks have re-established their bona fides as a serious title contender.
—Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 27 May 2021
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