claim
verb (used with object)
to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due.
am claiming
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present progressiveof claim (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Still, I finally beat my guests this week, so I am claiming a win for that.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2024
"I finally realized that it is a wonderful song," she says, "and I am claiming it."
From Time Magazine Archive
But now I am claiming something very different.
From The Three Eyes by Maurice Leblanc
I am claiming a new kind of lens holder, and I point out that the interior of the holder may be coated if desired with a plasticized synthetic resin coating.
From The Professional Approach by John Schoenherr
It seems, therefore, best to protest at once against the misjudgment, though in so doing I am claiming for it an attention which it may not seem to deserve.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
