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How can you use “legitimately” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
While it is acknowledged that such a method would not work well for books, the idea was that the number of occurrencies of a lemma (a technical though convenient term for the `thing--word or phrase--under study'), multiplied by, say the Audit Bureau of Circulation sworn circulation of a periodical would yield a figure that could legitimately be called its Exposure . Obviously, such a number would be far too large to manipulate readily, so, using a formula familiar to statisticians, it was normalized to produce a simple decimal number of only a few digits which I called the lemma's Exposure Index . The purpose of the exercise was to connect the frequency information with the language as it is used and perceived; in addition, the approach would serve to eliminate from consideration those materials which, though published, were little read, with a consequent low influence on the lexicon.
In other words, you could legitimately state that "The Labour Party represents the interests of organized labor in the U.K." To modify the names of people and organizations to fit a localized spelling style is to show disrespect to the owners of those names, and condescension to your readers.
If a category of information is legitimately useful in judging an elected public official, how can it be illegitimate and outrageous to gather and publish such information?
And he's legitimately terrified of death threats--who wouldn't be?
She claims that the church hurts children of annulled marriages when it claims that their parents were never legitimately wed.
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