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- noun One who, or that which,
legitimizes .
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Examples
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In a world where Perez Hilton is an expert, the medium is the message and the platform is the legitimizer.
Tom Vander Ark: The End of the Book Tom Vander Ark 2010
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In a world where Perez Hilton is an expert, the medium is the message and the platform is the legitimizer.
Tom Vander Ark: The End of the Book Tom Vander Ark 2010
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I still feel that, at BayouBias, he wrote that Bush's appearance with Nagin could be taken as a sign of support often enough that Crouere went beyond being an observer to being a legitimizer.
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Loving Lombardi: If one person can legitimize a network, then the NFL Network's legitimizer is Michael Lombardi.
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When the negotiations fell apart, the two leaders traded public insults (Chávez compared Uribe to a "mafia boss"; Uribe reiterated by calling him a "legitimizer of terrorists").
Meddle Nettle 2009
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That makes the organization indispensable as a convener of the governments of the world and as a legitimizer of decisions and actions taken in their name.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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He says that the UN is a very poor manager of military and executive action, and that it functions far better as a subcontractor of national forces and a legitimizer of international action emphasis added--exactly the UN vis-à-vis ISAF in Afghanistan; how will Prof.
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Nonetheless, if you have already won the electoral vote, it is OK to talk about the popular vote as a kind of adjunct legitimizer.
Archive 2006-11-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006
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Nonetheless, if you have already won the electoral vote, it is OK to talk about the popular vote as a kind of adjunct legitimizer.
Intellectual Dishonesty Personified: Charles Krauthammer Glenn Greenwald 2006
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How fantasy can be used as legitimizer by Khalid S. Al-Khater on Wednesday, Dec 14, 2005 at 12: 22: 07 PM
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