claiming

Example Sentences

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I’m not claiming that he’s overcompensating, but, yeah, he is.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2026

Social Security benefits are generally complex, with all the possibilities for claiming, and it only gets more complicated when you are potentially sharing benefits with other people and/or at an “unorthodox” age.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 18, 2026

Ghaffar sued Paulson, claiming he had been misled into investing $17 million in a Puerto Rican company that owns luxury car dealerships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026

Many of the Malawians at Sherwood admitted they did not have valid papers to be in the country, claiming they had been lured by syndicates promising jobs in factories, homes and mines.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

The first book claiming to present a ‘new philosophy’ would seem to be Francesco Patrizi’s anti-Aristotelian Nova de universis philosophia, or A New Universal Philosophy, of 1591.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton