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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Examples (10)

  • 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.