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lay claim

verb

Definitions

  1. To state that something belongs to oneself.

    • Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery.
    • Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands.
    • Just ahead of the auction, though, a potential heir from outside the family, laid claim on the work, according to Austria's Der Standard newspaper.

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