claim (original) (raw)
claim verb (SAY)
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- sayWhen I say your name, raise your hand.
- utterShe barely uttered a word all morning.
- they sayThey say the house is haunted.
- it is saidIt is said that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
- stateUnion members stated that they were unhappy with the proposal.
- remarkHe remarked that she was looking thin.
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- according toAccording to reports, the ceasefire is holding.
- as stated by/inAs stated by medical experts, these products are totally safe when used correctly.
- as maintained byThere is no reason to change your diet, as maintained by some lifestyle experts.
- as claimed bySo-called superfoods will not make you live longer, as claimed by some advertising.
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- Some people still claim that there is no firm evidence linking smoking with lung cancer.
- They claim to be the biggest company in the world, which is true if you include their subsidiaries.
- The study claims that British advertising stereotypes women.
- It is claimed that the officers tortured a man to death in 1983 in a city police station.
- Dean tricked the old lady into giving him eight hundred pounds, claiming that he would invest it for her.
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(Definition of claim from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
claim | American Dictionary
claim verb [T] (SAY)
claim verb [T] (REQUEST)
Idiom
claim noun [C] (REQUEST)
A claim is also a statement saying that you have a right to something:
(Definition of claim from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of claim
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For her project to succeed fully, she would need to be able to vindicate both her historical and philosophical claims.
Many students in my class were inspired by these readings to carry on further investigations, finding more data and phonetic support for the phonological claims.
The central claim of this paper is that decision-making cannot be understood purely at the group level.
The cold fusion claims of 1989, in contrast, attracted criticism that spilled over from the purely theoretic domain to the professional one.
The authors claim to be modeling semantic representations in the domain of living things.
In this way, the central claim of their paper - "all mental representations are conscious" - ceases to be vacuous.
There is no theoretical reason for claiming that representations and computation need to be conscious.
We take this as support for our claim that the traditional responseto-stimulus-mapping view should be replaced by an eventrepresentation view.
The potential for such liability claims will provide private parties with an added incentive to bring cases.
In both of these situations, social subjects enact authentication by historicizing their identities through claims of linguistic continuity with a valued past.
All that remains is the claim that (a) the resurrection body is the same person as the earthly body.
The claim may be true without the people's good judgment surfacing in their actual choices.
This largely determined the maximum of ten hectares (arable equivalent) and ensured that only symbolic holdings would be given to farm workers lacking ownership claims.
Because they cannot claim real property on their findings, they may attach their names to them as a gesture of symbolic ownership for their work.
These results support the claim that a failure of self-monitoring may underlie the core symptoms of schizophrenia.
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Collocations with claim
These are words often used in combination with claim.
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They stake a bold claim for a single perceptual system that utilizes global arrays of energy.
They can make a formal challenge to the application only if they can show that they have a competing claim.
A conflicting claims model of inflation is developed, in which inflation is the result of conflict over the functional distribution of income.
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