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dele·git·imize

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  1. delegitimizeverb

    To make something illegal that was previously legal

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of delegitimize in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of delegitimize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of delegitimize in a Sentence

  1. David Becker:

    President Donald Trump and critics have candidates and foreign adversaries actively seeking to leverage any problem, no matter how small, to reduce voter's confidence in the system, to delegitimize this election. Most election officials across the country are on high alert making sure and double checking that problems don't occur -- and it's actually pretty impressive given how many new options for mail-in voting that there are, that there aren't more problems.

  2. Mike Davis:

    Justice Clarence Thomas is a great man, and the Democrats’ latest political attacks are simply repackaged smears in a 31-year campaign of hatred to punish and delegitimize a conservative Black Justice who thinks for himself.

  3. Gregg Nunziata:

    President Donald Trump lawyers should be concerned with a White House that is attempting to delegitimize Congress' oversight powers.

  4. Ron DeSantis:

    What you see now with the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions, and I view the wokeness as a form of cultural Marxism, they really want to tear at the fabric of our society.

  5. President Biden:

    When you delegitimize the courts, you delegitimize the legislative body, it's corrosive and it makes it almost impossible to reach compromise, we're a diverse nation... this democracy, in order to function, you have to remember it requires consensus at the end of the day.

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