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Were people who claimed that the world was making them sick just a bunch of hypochondriacs?

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Both campaigns believe they can still win and, for now, neither candidate has claimed fraud.

From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026

In China, Antonelli had the same front-wing issue as Russell on his final run - albeit his session was not disrupted in other ways, as Russell's was - and still claimed pole.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026

Almost all of SpaceX’s claimed TAM comes from its prospective AI business — the only one of its three business segments that has virtually no concrete achievements to claim.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

And his salesman at Bank of America claimed they’d had a “power outage.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis