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claim

If you claim something, you say or write that it is true without proof. It is easy to claim that a god exists, but impossible to prove. He claims to be at home when the shooting happened. He often falsely claimed to be the president of various businesses. If you claim something, you say or write that it belongs to you and often you take it. Once you are over 65, there are a variety of government benefits that you can claim. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. Nobody has yet claimed the money that was lost last week. Passengers can claim their baggage at the bottom of the stairs. The incident in Kenya has claimed the world's attention. If something claims a life, it kills people. The disease has claimed seven people in Taipei so far this month.

claim

A claim is something that you say or write without proof. It is difficult to believe claims that the world is ending. His claim to be the father is now being investigated. If you have a claim to something, you have the right, to own or do it. The government is disputing their claim to the land. The group has made a claim against the owner worth $1 million. A claim is something that you say you have the right to. They have begun looking for gold on their claim in Western Alberta.

claim

assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing He claimed that he killed the burglar an assertion of a right (as to money or property) his claim asked for damages demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident an assertion that something is true or factual his claim that he was innocent evidence contradicted the government's claims ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example They claimed on the maximum allowable amount demand for something as rightful or due they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day (= take) lay claim to; as of an idea She took credit for the whole idea (= title) an informal right to something his claim on her attentions his title to fame (= title) an established or recognized right a strong legal claim to the property he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate he staked his claim (= take) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs the accident claimed three lives The hard work took its toll on her (= call) a demand especially in the phrase the call of duty

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Simple sentences

Some people claim to be advanced in a foreign language, but in fact they make basic mistakes.
There is a claim that climaterorism is the main cause of global warming.
They set up their backs against the claim.
I do not want to reject this claim.
Where do I claim my baggage?
I will be waiting for you at baggage claim.
He laid claim to the land.
She has a claim on her deceased husband's estate.
Her claim was false.
I'm skeptical when I hear someone claim to speak more than five languages fluently.
I don't quite believe it when I hear someone claim they can speak more than five languages fluently.
Anyone can make that claim!
Don't believe people who claim that they know everything.
Some people claim to know everything.
Where do I claim my bags?
They have no claim to the property.
The only reason why Ferdinand Magellan could claim to be the first man to sail across all of the world's meridians was because Christopher Columbus had chosen to swim.
Tom and Mary claim that they never lie to each other.
Some claim that full-body scanners violate the Fourth Amendment.
Textbooks that claim otherwise sound dubious.
Can you justify your claim?

Movie subtitles

I've given up that name! but I've given up my claim to the throne!
Ming China had an incontrovertible claim to be the most advanced civilization in the world.
Did anyone come to claim any?
I didn't expect no one would come to claim any of them, seriously.
Nurse Crane assures me she's never made a claim in almost 30 years of driving and no-one has ever made a claim against her.
And the other contestants claim that Mr. Christopher took pride in not cutting Duke's hair.
Okay, but she has to file a claim soon for it to hold.
Just as the father was dying, the children arrived, each with his ring, to claim the estate.
According to our Charter rights, which Saladin granted us after the capture of the city, anyone who has a claim against a Jew may have the Patriarch judge him according to civil and canonical law.
In view of the above, you are desmissed immediately from your employment with the City and are without claim to any further wages.
And Big Jim discovered his claim!
You claim to be sent by God?
Just as Jesus is the son of God. you claim to be the daughter of God?
I'm interested in the time period they claim Knox attacked them.
Your demise gains me nothing. I cannot claim your cyborg powers.
You claim.that I am.
You can't claim for an instant.
No one else saw the man you claim to have met.
If you're innocent, as you claim, in spite of being seen near the victim's dressing room and clearly being sought after, why didn't you go to the authorities on your own?
You claim you went to your wife for money.
I claim the favor.
I claim that's a disloyal, libelous statement.
I'll have to see on what you base your claim.
When this Pitt came to summon you, as you claim. did you know you were called to attend another rebel?
Any friend of my friend Copperfield, has a personal claim upon me. Oh thank you, thank you sir.
Oh. - And the other contestants claim that Mr. Christopher took pride in not cutting Duke's hair.
I no longer have any claim on you.
And because these are the racially best of the German nation. they can in the proudest self-esteem. claim the leadership of the Reich and the people.
They claim they're finding they have to appeal more to the general public, and for the first time in their history, they're contemplating going into a five-cent magazine, theNational Weekly.
You must know, Professor Berry gave me the idea to show these rare stamps together for the first time. They'll all claim damages!
Before I had only a claim to the jewels.
Gentlemen, may I claim your indulgence for a moment?
I still claim I was tight the night I proposed.
That's the one privilege I claim as the host. What will you be?
You and the flatfoot claim whoever killed the jockey killed Barrow.

News and current affairs

This claim was hugely misguided.
The notion that a dictator can claim the sovereign right to abuse his people has become unacceptable.
China and India claim the right to proceed with industrialization and development as the developed nations did, unhampered by limits on their greenhouse gas emissions.
Neither the Soviet experience in Afghanistan in the 1980's nor NATO's today vindicates the claim that troop numbers are what matter most on the modern battlefield.
Not all ideological hawks are religious, although those who are base their claim on divine promises and prophecies.
This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions - through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax - is the only way to combat climate change.
And it is still common to hear autocratic leaders who inherited parts of the Western empires claim that democracy is all well and good, but the people are not yet ready for it.
The document is filled with nonsense, such as the fatuous claim that high taxes and over-regulation explain America's high unemployment.
Income inequality is at historic highs, but the rich claim that they have no responsibility to the rest of society.
The claim that gun ownership ensures freedom is especially absurd, given that most of the world's vibrant democracies have long since cracked down on private gun ownership.
To claim that Islam is incompatible with human rights is to consider it a civilization too hidebound to change.
Some, as usual, will claim that the Arab-Israeli conflict lies at the root of the problems that exist between Islam and the West, and that resolving the Palestinians' plight will contribute immensely to smoother relations.
If it declares bankruptcy and refuses to buy back its assets, bankruptcy laws should give the central bank the first claim on the bank's assets.
The Bush Administration makes no claim to have adequate evidence of this.
So, two crucial items must claim priority at the top of the world's economic agenda in the months ahead.
The second claim is that these countries live in peace because they are democracies.
Hindu religious law, for example, allows a woman to claim an equal share in her parents' wealth, but few exercise this right.
Culturally, she feels that she does not have an equal claim on her father's property.
At least it's a recovery, they claim, and a sign of healing that can be attributed mainly to the heroic, unconventional efforts of the US Federal Reserve.
Economists, as opposed to those who make their living gambling on stocks, make no claim to being able to predict when the day of reckoning will come, much less identifying the event that will bring down the house of cards.
Nor is the claim that Islam is intrinsically inimical to innovation viable, because Muslim civilization has contributed mightily to science and art throughout history.

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