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- verb transitive to
remove thelegitimacy from - verb transitive to make
illegitimate
Etymologies
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Examples
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Qu (Danny) - Reagan's war on drugs had significant effect in US, so why does medical marijuana delegitimate change. gov?
Clay Shirky on 'mass internet collaboration' at London's ICA Mia 2009
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Qu (Danny) - Reagan's war on drugs had significant effect in US, so why does medical marijuana delegitimate change. gov?
Archive 2009-02-01 Mia 2009
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Too often this word merely invokes the ghosts of the McCarthy era to delegitimate any criticism of the hard left.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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Too often this word merely invokes the ghosts of the McCarthy era to delegitimate any criticism of the hard left.
Radical-In-Chief Stanley Kurtz 2010
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Techniques that ‘alternative’ journalists use to delegitimate ‘mainstream’ or ‘institutional’ sources #23: craft a genealogy of torture that compares the Central Intelligence Agency to the Gestapo.
The CIA’s Torture Methods Were First Used by the Gestapo | Disinformation 2007
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It is the job of the institutions of science (peer review, PhD granters, funders, etc) to filter real science from junk, the legitimate from the delegitimate.
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This “truth” is generally agenda-driven and an attempt to delegitimate all other positions.
Abortion. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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It is the job of the institutions of science (peer review, PhD granters, funders, etc) to filter real science from junk, the legitimate from the delegitimate.
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Thus the essay seeks to paint environmentalism with a universal brush, and delegitimate the entire movement.
Joseph Romm: Memo to Media: Don't be Suckered by Bad Analyses from the Breakthrough Institute 2009
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I have to say I have always been dubious about anyone's ability to delegitimate Fox (as if their "reporting" didn't speak for itself).
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