claimed

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It previously claimed the Scunthorpe plant was losing £700,000 a day.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026

He said variable annuities are stupid and poisonous, but he claimed that fixed-rate annuities are the sparkly, rainbow-fairyland of investments if you know the right ones.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

Mary doesn’t know her biological father, but she was claimed by a Pomo head man and raised by one of his girlfriends, a loyal if embittered woman named Saturnina.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Cipriani claimed Shell turned to him for protection against potential bad publicity.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

He went on for a bit, then showed Eisman this little chart that he’d created, and which he claimed was the reason he had become interested in the trade.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis