claim
verb (used with object)
to demand by or as by virtue of a right; demand as a right or as due.
overclaim
-
a word derived from
claim.
Example Sentences
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Despite the strong results, Mr Rowe said that "given the history of M&S", the company wouldn't "overclaim our progress".
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2021
“We don’t want to overclaim what we have done,” she says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2020
Of course the company was wrong to overclaim for the app on the basis of the available evidence.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 31, 2018
This is an overclaim, because by alleging that the money is due at Rome simply, the plaintiff deprives his debtor of the advantage he might have derived from paying at Ephesus.
From The Institutes of Justinian by John Baron Moyle
