How to Use stake a claim in a Sentence

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• Can any of them stake a claim to a rotation spot and save the team some money and/or prospects this offseason?
  — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
• The Nolan Ryan Fan Club might disagree, but even Ryan isn’t staking a claim to that honor.
  — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
• Crop domestication can stake a claim to being among the most pivotal technological advances in human history.
  — Ornob Alam, The Conversation, 12 Oct. 2026
• The CMOs who succeed over the next three years will stake a claim to a companywide story and deliver it consistently across product, comms, sales and the LLMs.
  — Rekha Thomas, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
• In the spring of 2024, pro-Palestinian student protesters erected an encampment on Harvard Yard, staking a claim to the heart of the university’s 400-year-old campus.
  — Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2026
• Replacing the 1960s era Union Carbide Building, the tower has come to the fore not just for its scale and sustainable features, but also for the design language shaping its interiors — a story in which Italy’s Molteni Group is now staking a claim.
  — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 13 July 2026