"legitimate possibility" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a possibility or option that is reasonable, valid, and acceptable. Example: "There is a legitimate possibility that the company will merge with its competitor, as both have similar products and market share." In this sentence, "legitimate possibility" is used to indicate that the potential merger is a realistic and believable option.
This time, it's a legitimate possibility".
Whether lacing up his gloves was simply naïveté or a legitimate possibility is unclear.
Bob Costas will be a free agent in midsummer when his contract ends, raising the legitimate possibility that he and NBC Sports will part.
Penders has joined an elite fraternity of coaches, including Lon Kruger, Rick Pitino and Eddie Sutton, who guided four colleges to the N.C.A.A. tournament, but there is a legitimate possibility that Penders, 64, may still lose his job.
In an accompanying article, Maria Zuber, a geophysicist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the study raised "the legitimate possibility that, after the giant impact, our Earth perhaps fleetingly possessed more than one moon.
Our minivans were equipped with DVDs about how not to get trodden on by an elephant, something which had fleetingly crossed my mind before but was now crystallised as a legitimate possibility.
News corporations function as agencies within what Bernstein refers to as 'the field of symbolic control'; such agencies regulate 'the means, contexts and legitimate possibilities of cultural reproduction' (Bernstein 1990: 46).
Both of these are legitimate possibilities.
He also loves science fiction but good science fiction, which "is based on science, its potential, and legitimate possibilities that we haven't yet arrived at".
While unlikely, these are all strange but legitimate possibilities that you are somewhat aware of, though little credence is ever ascribed to them.
Research any jobs and lifestyles that strike you as legitimate possibilities.
