The phrase "a legitimate path" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a valid or acceptable course of action or method in various contexts, such as career choices, problem-solving, or decision-making.
Example: "Pursuing further education is a legitimate path to enhance your career prospects."
Alternatives: "a valid option" or "an acceptable route."
He made the work of the artist potter a legitimate path to pursue".
The former is merely window dressing … the latter a legitimate path to sales, but all too rare".
The unusual examples of surrogacy in your article — intended parents with no genetic link to the children created by surrogacy and a 62-year-old single father with questionable parenting skills — are aberrations that point out the need for fair, ethical legislation aimed at a legitimate path to parenthood through surrogacy.
So, for example, someone who copied the first season of "Mad Men" would be a prime candidate to buy and download Season 2. "Once you give consumers a legitimate path, you can do all kinds of other interesting things with them," he said.
So, not talking about it is a legitimate path to consider, and that, honestly, sometimes make me want to throw my hands up and just say to my kids, "Just play hard and you're fine". Which is kinda right, now that I think of it.
Traditional venture capitalists have — with some exceptions such as Sequoia, A16Z and Union Square Ventures — largely eschewed ICOs as a legitimate path of funding.
Prayuth noted the international alarm over the coup, but said the country needed time to find a "righteous and legitimate" path for the country's democracy.
The biology community needs to recognize BER as a legitimate career path, and to formalize opportunities for undergraduate and graduate researchers to pursue this path.
Legal experts agreed that the only legitimate path would involve an expansive external investigation that would not include local members of the legal or law enforcement communities.
American policy makers also worry that, although elections are the most legitimate path to self-government, a vote held too quickly could be dangerous as well as impractical.
Ms. Varner's debut single "Only Wanna Give It To You" (RCA) could have come straight off Ms. Evans's 1995 debut album: the Biz Markie sample, Ms. Varner's scratchy voice, and the guest verse by J. Cole, a young rapper who would have been better suited to an era when dropping 16-bar verses on R&B songs was a legitimate career path.
