Sentence examples for legitimized my from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kirn legitimized my anxiety as a perfectly normal response to the totally abnormal human activity of soaring 30,000 feet above the earth.

To some degree, at least with regard to obtaining a lease, my husband legitimized my business". Did you raise money, or take it on solo?

His work has legitimized this national crisis, it has legitimized my experience, and it has alleviated the shame.

"I'm very lucky that I've gotten to do a lot of comedies and a lot of dramas, but [the Oscar] sort of legitimized my dramatic career.

This just helps legitimize my career".

"I've loved meeting new people and legitimizing my habit of asking people holding city maps if they need any help".

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.

She's the only one who can legitimize her feelings—I can only legitimize my own.

Each side chooses what is known as cherry-picking: "I choose my facts and their interpretations in the most favorable way to legitimize my narrative".

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 felt normal because my linguistic identity was legitimized by the presence of my peers who articulated much like me.