competing claim
Frequency: 7.010.2 per million words
Refers to conflicting assertions or demands for something, like ownership or truth.
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- The court must carefully evaluate the two competing claims to the property.
- Historians often deal with competing claims when interpreting past events.
- The insurance adjuster is investigating the competing claims filed by both drivers.
- In science, competing claims are tested through rigorous experimentation.
- The siblings presented competing claims on their late father's estate.
- A journalist's job is to report on the competing claims from both political parties.
- A new discovery has introduced a competing claim about the city's origins.
- Resolving competing claims for the limited resources was the committee's main challenge.
- The patent office is reviewing competing claims from two inventors for the same device.
- The philosophical debate is fueled by competing claims about the nature of consciousness.