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Example sentences for: claimed

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The CIA noted that the Yemenis claimed that Khallad helped direct the operation from Afghanistan or Pakistan, possibly as Bin Ladin's intermediary, but that it had not seen the Yemeni evidence.
For their part, the British claimed that laissez-faire policy precluded intervention in the market to halt the crisis, and that the Irish needed to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.
Judah Folkman, the biomedical researcher who landed on the cover of the New York Times for having discovered the cure for cancer, then found himself ostracized by his colleagues because he hadn't, really, though he never claimed he had.
Columbus claimed the island and others in the Bahamas for his royal Spanish patrons, but not finding the gold and other riches he was seeking, he stayed for only two weeks before sailing towards Cuba.
These films claimed to warn America about its urban ills, but what Cagney's first breakout hit, The Public Enemy (1931), conveyed was the charisma of the amoral hood.