Example Sentences

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The ONS data shows nearly 1.7m people are claiming unemployment benefits, a slight decrease on the figure from a year ago.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Supporters on both sides are claiming victory based on images circulating on social media of blackboards and papers tallying the results.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

Alternatively, the government can start treating the banks like the fragile utilities they are claiming to be.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 9, 2025

Banks are hardly the fragile utilities they are claiming to be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

And they are claiming that there never was any swarming; according to them, Sanders' natives are striking for better pay and conditions, and Sanders got General Maith to use troops to break the strike.

From Oomphel in the Sky by Piper, H. Beam