"There's a legitimate interpretation of Arnold Friedman as a tragic hero," he said, with "a nobility."

This is a legitimate medical interpretation.

In the first example, Evans makes legitimate but undoubtedly sweeping interpretations which are only substantiated later in his book.

Typically, those 1920s revisionists were well-regarded scholars offering legitimate alternative interpretations of historical facts.

They are pressing the outer limits of what could be a reasonable or legitimate interpretation of the balance between employer prerogatives and worker rights.

Both, he suggests, are legitimate interpretations of science.

Current and former administration officials say some cases cited by the Democrats are legitimate interpretations of Democratic positions through a deductive, if Republican, lens.

It's a legitimate interpretation, but not a very thrilling one.

But I believe this is not contradictory, on the contrary, with a legitimate interpretation of international law which I ask to be done formally.

Balkin and Levinson view partisan entrenchment as roughly but imperfectly democratic; it guarantees neither legitimate nor correct constitutional interpretation.