How to Use delegitimize in a Sentence

delegitimize

verb
  • The goal is to delegitimize them.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 2 June 2026
  • Democrats spent the next eight years trying to delegitimize Bush.
    — Rachel Marsden, Star Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
  • That in turn could delegitimize the court and provide a basis for packing it.
    — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • This would delegitimize the Supreme Court, which would be bad for the country as a whole.
    — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 23 Sep. 2020
  • It was used as a personal attack against him and as a way to delegitimize his activist work.
    — al, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Trump shouldn’t be trying to delegitimize the process, a point that journalists have often made.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 4 Sep. 2020
  • In seeking to delegitimize the vote, the president is playing with fire.
    — Larry Diamond, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2020
  • That does not, though, delegitimize Day’s praise for the recent Findlay grad.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Trump’s strategy to address poor polling results is to delegitimize them.
    — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2020
  • What better way to dismiss or delegitimize the heretics than to smear them as covert members of the opposition?
    — Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 29 June 2024
  • Trump and his cronies have pulled out all the stops — short of arrests — to neuter and delegitimize legitimate journalism.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The shrewder strategy would be to delegitimize and sabotage him instead.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 18 Dec. 2017
  • This is clearly a partisan move to muddy the waters in an attempt to delegitimize Lt.
    — Washington Post, 1 May 2017
  • If gloves-off politics isn’t enough to win power, then the second option is to delegitimize the process entirely.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Facebook will ban any ads that seek to delegitimize the outcome of the election, the company said Wednesday.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The mobilization of thugs could further delegitimize the government and make the protest boil over further.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2019
  • And just because the world may have missed the first target does not delegitimize the overall goal of limiting warming as much as possible.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Later in the day, Sasse tried, too, asking if any upcoming court decisions could delegitimize the court.
    — Adam J. White, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Israel says the campaign is an effort to delegitimize and even destroy the country, and claims its motives are antisemitic.
    — Fox News, 19 Nov. 2021
  • This kind of criticism – attempting to delegitimize the press – serves to undermine trust in the work that journalists do.
    — Kevin M. Lerner, The Conversation, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Some scholars, including Teeter, say these seizures were meant to add weight to the creations rather than delegitimize the previous builders’ work.
    — Emma Schkloven, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The new charges accuse Bolsonaro of taking part in a conspiracy to delegitimize the elections.
    — Anthony Pereira, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2025
  • These messages delegitimize the anxiety and heartbreak ripping through our country and the world right now, robbing us of the right to have bad days in the midst of this crisis.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 22 May 2020
  • In the months that followed, millions took to the streets in protest and worked to delegitimize the government through a campaign of civil disobedience.
    — Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2021
  • The flip side is that the president over the last four years has been involved in the most concerted campaign to discredit and delegitimize the press in our history.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The movement has grown in recent years, and many supporters of Israel have seen it as an attempt to delegitimize the Jewish state.
    — Fox News, 13 Aug. 2019
  • These things will likely be no less successful at keeping the nominee off the court, but will reinforce the larger effort to delegitimize the process and the court.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 27 June 2018
  • There have been many attempts made throughout the years to delegitimize and demonize Israel, the only Jewish state in the world.
    — Jacob Millner, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2017
  • On who can dispense drugs, on what clinical tests are required first, on how far along the pregnancy can be—the rules are all designed to delay, deter, and delegitimize.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 5 June 2019
  • In years past, the Kremlin’s goal was to delegitimize the opposition in the eyes of the public and keep it out of official politics.
    — Anton Troianovski, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Feb. 2021

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