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lay claim
verb as in pretend
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Yet few working actors today can lay claim to any real battlefield experience.
I was the first Tea Partier," he says, "and I'll lay claim to that to my grave!
Each group seems determined to lay claim to the true Tea Party mantle—and in the process, elbow out people who ought to be allies.
The Republican Party once could lay claim to the mantle of being the fiscally responsible, or “Daddy Party.”
Kristol can fairly lay claim to having “discovered” Palin for Washington political circles.
He took mental inventory of his possessions and what he could lay claim to, and he happened to think about his wife's homestead.
Britain failing to lay claim to it, the French afterwards assumed it as part of the discoveries made by Verazani in 1523.
I can lay claim to scrupulous exactness both in detailing facts and in reporting the remarks of others.
I lay claim to no constitutional equality with Justinian or Alfred.
You are evidently, to be frank, a person of much more importance than you lay claim to be.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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