as in to invalidate
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Recent Examples of delegitimize
Expecting a transitional administration to deploy coercion risks delegitimizing it.
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Javier Corrales, Time, 2 Dec. 2025
Trump’s sinister achievement is to delegitimize the old intellectual and political establishment while at the same time cementing the racial hierarchies and regimes of repression that this elite exploited during the war on terror.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
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
This was no isolated outburst, but part of a broader effort to delegitimize conservative participation in academic life.
—Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
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And killing civilians could backfire, invalidating what the US is trying to achieve and handing Iran’s regime both a propaganda win and a rallying cry, especially to those citizens who may want reform, but equally have no desire to be bombed by the US once more.—
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Federal judges have no power to invalidate maps as a partisan gerrymanders, following a 2019 Supreme Court decision.—
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As a result, much of the original's monotony was nullified, but what about the rest?—
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If granted, those petitions nullify asylum-seekers' claims and clear the way for them to be deported to third countries, absent any appeals.—
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“Delegitimize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/delegitimize. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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