claiming

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My sister thinks Medicaid will take the house my mom and I own together, claiming half of its value every year and effectively reducing my portion of ownership to nothing.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Fifa has referenced the spending power of US consumers and talked up the demand, claiming more than five million tickets have been bought, and that the event would be sold out.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

And within months of returning to office in 2025, he was already claiming that he had ended eight wars.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026

Hardly a week passes now without Beijing’s disciplinary apparatus claiming another senior official—military commanders, civilian bureaucrats, retired provincial party bosses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

He outwitted the Nazis by claiming we were essential to the war effort even though he knew that many of us, myself included, had no useful skills at all.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson