claimed

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He does not appear to be covered in excrement as officers had claimed and he is not behaving erratically as he is led to the shower room.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren, and claimed that Alibaba created almost 25,000 fake accounts to access Claude through nearly 29 million exchanges with the AI model, which is not available to entities in China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

Prison officers had previously claimed the 30-year-old, who was on remand for unpaid fines and breach of the peace, had smashed up his cell and covered himself in excrement.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

A better lede, Tom was instructing me, would have read something like this: “The White House claimed today that the sky was green, even though in fact it was clearly blue.”

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2026

He claimed he learned that terrible trick from one of the witches in the Eloko—which means that the Eloko Forests is already my least favorite place in Asamando.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer