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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 the conservative alliance with Trump was indeed a deal with the devil, is this crisis of public legitimacy much of a price?
  — Quinta Jurecic, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
• What broke him, though, was Roman’s comment about Kendall’s children, about the legitimacy of his bloodline.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
• For Trump, soliciting votes and issuing threats to the legitimacy of the democratic process are now often the same thing.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
• The public legitimacy of removing Trump from the political process is not helped by bending the law.
  — The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
• But the safety and legitimacy of those testosterone therapies hasn’t been clear.
  — Alice Park, Time, 16 June 2023
• This is a powerful message backing the legitimacy of her nephew’s rule.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
• The Fed has launched an investigation into what went wrong, but some cast doubt on the legitimacy of an internal probe.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• The letters were not written to question the legitimacy of the judicial system or the validity of the jury’s ruling.
  — Tracy Brown Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 9 Sep. 2023
• How has that undercut America’s legitimacy in this work around the world?
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024
• The conventional wisdom goes that the court retains its legitimacy by staying out of the fray of news cycles, election cycles and the cacophonous court of public opinion.
  — Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
• But under the principle of democracy, the government’s legitimacy stems from the fact that voters decided whom to put in charge.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• The freedom of creditors in a bankruptcy to lodge objections to the debtor’s plan says nothing about the legitimacy of those complaints or the likelihood of their succeeding.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
• Today, the sector will find legitimacy only in its ability to help confront the manifold crises in ways others cannot.
  — Mark Malloch-Brown, Foreign Affairs, 15 Jan. 2024
• The onetime prosecutor had left Andreessen Horowitz to raise a $1.5 billion venture fund of her own, and both the industry and the media hailed her as the figure needed to bring legitimacy to crypto once and for all.
  — Byjeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 3 Aug. 2023
• The Norman victor, William the Conqueror, made sure to have his coronation in the abbey, seeking the legitimacy of association with Edward.
  — Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024