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past tense of claim
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claimed

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adjective

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of claimed
Verb
And, of course, there is Elon's Starlink and all the claimed internet connections that run with T-Mobile's 5G. Michael Lydick, PC Magazine, 9 Aug. 2025
Adjective
Trump claimed without evidence that McEntarfer had manipulated statistics for political reasons. Max Zahn, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025 It is claimed to be the most powerful and efficient iPhone chip to date. Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025 Hundreds of arrests were made during the surge of federal law enforcement, and the White House claimed the action helped reduce violent crime. Heather Hunter, The Washington Examiner, 10 Sep. 2025 Season 13 Bachelorette contestant Dean Unglert claimed on the same podcast that he was approached to be the Season 22 Bachelor with a $75,000 contract. Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 10 Sep. 2025 The committee now contains seven members hand-selected by Kennedy, including Robert Malone, who has falsely claimed COVID-19 vaccines cause a form of AIDS, and Retsef Levi, who said in a 2023 video that COVID-19 vaccines should be removed from the market. Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025 In explaining the oversight for such a highly visual social media app, Meta claimed limited resources and higher priorities. Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025 The holy grail of European club football was achieved just four times from 1955-56 to 2007-08, but has since been claimed on seven occasions — an indication of how the elite teams have pulled further and further away from the rest of the continent. Will Jeanes, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025 Even more strikingly, Netanyahu falsely claimed that the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, had already passed a bill recognizing the Armenian genocide—a statement that is entirely untrue. MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for claimed
Verb
  • In their lawsuit against MiniMax, which is based in Shanghai, China, the studios alleged the company failed to act on their cease-and-desist requests to avoid copyright infringement.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The incursion comes as a UN commission alleged Israel’s war in Gaza constituted genocide, accusations that Israel denies.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Shortly after, miners realized that GPUs were more adept at handling the parallel computations demanded by Bitcoin's algorithm.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Fraternal Order of Police criticized her for having 24-hour protection and demanded better benefits for police.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Evergreen High School is located about 20 miles from Columbine High School, the site of an infamous 1999 mass shooting that killed 12 students and a teacher.
    Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Conservative commentator Will Cain observed a moment of silence on his Fox News show after a gunman shot and killed Charlie Kirk on Wednesday.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But until now, such light sources required large, power-hungry tabletop systems.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Releasing the letters, which previously required filing requests under the federal Freedom of Information Act, promotes a level of transparency akin to the advisory meetings’, Tidmarsh said.
    Arthur Allen, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For example, there are two kinds of pinkwashing – one appropriates the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon to sell products, while the other involves flaunting purported support for LGBTQ+ rights.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2023
  • That Hochul had many other options and still chose LaSalle shows either a lack of conviction in her purported beliefs or severe political ineptitude.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
Verb
  • Wenger was supposed to go on trial with Amiri, but just two days in, his lawyer, Nicole Lopes, insisted on a mistrial blaming her law firm and struggles with mental health.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Renell Medrano, the photographer and director who has always insisted on the beauty of the everyday muse, convened her constellation of friends and collaborators at WSA in FiDi to fête the arrival of Ice Magazine Volume 2, published by IDEA Books.
    Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Reeling from the unprecedented incident, the UAE requested Stingers from Washington.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Asked Friday if city and state officials had requested a National Guard deployment -- or had formally signed off on it -- the White House didn't respond.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The tall, steep mountains that rise to 6,000 feet in elevation in the Grandfather District saw triple digit winds and some of the heaviest rainfall of the storm with hundreds of miles of trail and road destroyed.
    Graham Averill, Outside, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Alshon cruised past Johnson 3,7 in a surprise, while Garnett destroyed Haworth 4,1 to set up a very solid final.
    Todd Boss, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Claimed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/claimed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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