claim

Example Sentences

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If you have a better sense of how long you’ll live, you can claim Social Security at the optimal time and adjust your portfolio to match your expected life span.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

Colossal Biosciences’ claim to have achieved the ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf has been questioned by geneticists, but the media swallowed the claim whole.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Channel 4 says that when concerns related to contributor welfare were raised, "prompt and appropriate action was taken, based on the information available at the time" adding it "strongly refutes any claim to the contrary".

From BBC • May 20, 2026

But Walsh smuggles in an entirely different claim beneath these factual details: that Parks was effectively a political actress participating in a manufactured hoax.

From Salon • May 20, 2026

Nothing could have been better calculated to activate all of Jefferson’s interior antennae, since his primacy as the author of the Declaration was his major claim to everlasting fame.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis