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Which literary character is based on a person who made fantastic claims?

claim

[kleym] / kleɪm /




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Whichever side 'wins' can be expected to make a claim for costs.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

The shifting market is leaving the door open for card issuers to stake a claim where they see potential for growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The four leagues say the shake-up is needed to make world football's governing body "transparent, objective, proportionate and inclusive" and claim that "our sport cannot grow globally if its foundations are undermined".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Airport officials claim the project will significantly improve the notoriously bad traffic that snarls through the “horseshoe” of 1 World Way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Ready to claim it back and take pride in myself once again.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

The filing claims that a record from Zelle, a money-transferring service, shows a subsequent payment to Case in the amount of $4,000 from “Melissa E. Nathan.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

The club were accused of a wide range of rule breaches which centred around claims that they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other "off the books" payments to circumvent football's financial rules.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

While some claims are honored, many aren’t, said Prokopenko.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

"There is no truth to any of my claims against Mr Carter," she added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

Cardinal Bellarmine himself looked through Galileo’s telescope and appointed what we would now call a scientific subcommittee of learned priests to examine Galileo’s claims for the instrument.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

He left it behind to found the first U.S. law firm devoted exclusively to representing people who claimed they were harmed by gender-transition treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

There then followed further allegations of misreporting financial information centred on documents that claimed to show secret 'off-the-books' payments to then manager Roberto Mancini via consultancy fees from a club in Abu Dhabi.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Oh, and DHS had still not shared their list of nearly 16,000 individuals the agency claimed might be noncitizens.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Orelien claimed this week his style was based on Haitian and Caribbean traditions, telling Liberation newspaper the software was "used to the French literary tradition and classical authors".

From Barron's ● Sep. 25, 2026

She claimed she might be too nervous ever to get back in any wagon.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Others floated conspiracy theories accusing the mysterious “they” of trying to “control” Clavicular, or claiming he is besieged with “women trying to ruin his life with rumors.”

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

The male adult prison estate is at 98.5% capacity, with some staff claiming they have just a handful of spaces remaining.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

After finding Linda Anthony, he found “Olivia Parker” and “Jessica Bennett,” both claiming to be recruiters at “Confidential.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Then she mentioned a phone call from someone claiming there was a problem with one of her accounts.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Isabella is already there, claiming our spot, right under the huge magnolia tree.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée




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