"I've loved meeting new people and legitimizing my habit of asking people holding city maps if they need any help".
Mr. Kirn legitimized my anxiety as a perfectly normal response to the totally abnormal human activity of soaring 30,000 feet above the earth.
Now seeking a faculty position, she finds that "the backing of NSF legitimizes my research," giving it added clout in a field in which much funding comes from scientifically less prestigious sources.
His work has legitimized this national crisis, it has legitimized my experience, and it has alleviated the shame.
Or should the word meaning "to make lawful" be shortened to legitimize, as my copy editor suggested I use in a recent column instead of legitimate?
I routinely hear my peers legitimize the most expensive and wasteful of gestures for the most esoteric of reasons, under the guise of what starchitect Jean Nouvel calls "the mystery and the deepness".
"The Bible says we're all sinners, but this, in my opinion, is asking us to legitimize sin," the board member, Bill Lewis, said at a meeting.
At 32, after six years with my lovely boyfriend, including five of co-habitation and two of home ownership, it was what my dad matter-of-factly called "time to legitimize".
