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legitimatizes

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A president who is not a president is treated as one, and it legitimatizes his hateful and ignorant words.

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Quick take

(transitive) To make legitimate.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

(transitive) To make legitimate.

verb

(transitive) To legalize.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for legitimatizes.

verb

(transitive) To make legitimate.

verb

(transitive) To legalize.

Example sentences

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A president who is not a president is treated as one, and it legitimatizes his hateful and ignorant words.

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They must be pretty happy with the recession, since it somewhat legitimatizes their predictions, for now.

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So what is the body of knowledge that legitimatizes them as technical terms?

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I disagree, giving certain folks a platform only raises them up and legitimatizes them.

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Participating in a fraudulent, corrupt system merely legitimatizes it.

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Basically, it undermines and de-legitimatizes the power structure.

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Or take some reporting about DT's insane idea to take over Greenland, treating it like a legitimate idea and polling people about their thoughts just further legitimatizes absolute insanity.

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I know this has been bandied about for a while but to have a proper SLA offering partner for Godot legitimatizes it as 4 approaches.

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> I disagree, giving certain folks a platform only raises them up and legitimatizes them.

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A monthly subscription is not so bad, but when this becomes the normal way to buy things from the big names it legitimatizes the practice so a scammer can get their hands into your pocket forever.

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> I disagree, giving certain folks a platform only raises them up and legitimatizes them Despite huge deplatforming efforts over the last decade fringe views have grown to become mainstream and there is less trust between people than ever.

Quote examples

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Friendly Americans, the Minister does not hold much power, but just legitimatizes "people's agreement" to the actual officer in charge.

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How do you use legitimatizes in a sentence?

A president who is not a president is treated as one, and it legitimatizes his hateful and ignorant words.

What does legitimatizes mean?

(transitive) To make legitimate.

What part of speech is legitimatizes?

legitimatizes is commonly used as verb.