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Example sentences for: legitimate

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After a series of convictions in the mid-'80s, the Outfit lost its control of Las Vegas casino-gambling revenue to legitimate business.
This fascination became a legitimate area of scientific inquiry in 1712, when the French scientist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur published his seminal work on crayfish limb and claw regeneration (Réaumur 1712).
"I don't think it's a legitimate issue."
species to hybridise and new phenotypes to emerge, there is legitimate concern that sexual recombination between the A1 and A2 mating types could produce something more devastating than either form.
Perhaps he had so thoroughly identified his art at this point with French national traditions--was he not the legitimate heir of Courbet?