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Discover LudwigThe phrase "were legitimized" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process of making something legitimate or acceptable, often in a legal or social context. Example: "The new policies were legitimized by the government to ensure compliance with international standards."
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were legitimized
verb
To make legitimate.
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They allegedly married, and their children were legitimized.
Two of her four children by Louis a son and a daughter survived infancy and were legitimized.
These conditions improved considerably during Elizabeth's reign, when, in 1574, regular weekday performances were legitimized and when, in 1576, the first playhouse was built, by James Burbage.
The four offspring of the union were legitimized after their parents' subsequent marriage (1396) but were, by their half brother, Henry IV, expressly excluded from succession to the crown.
Many historians regard 1920 as the end of the revolution, but sporadic violence and clashes between federal troops and various rebel forces continued until the reformist president, Lázaro Cárdenas, took office in 1934 and institutionalized the reforms that were fought for during the revolution and were legitimized in the constitution of 1917.
But while Dr. Ravitch's ideas were legitimized and perpetuated by Bush ideologues, other scholars and writers, including me, were trying, often in vain, to call attention to the considerable evidence that the school accountability movement was built on a house of cards, and was doomed to crumble.
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"In some circles, he had to be legitimized". How's this for legitimate?
That leaves something like the way the Kosovo intervention was legitimized, pithily described as "illegal but legitimate".
Diane was legitimized in 1547.
Hence, electoral results are legitimized.
Such murder cannot be legitimized whatever the politics.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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