Affect
Claim
Claim verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Everyone, Stottlemeyer included, dismisses Randy's claim as an affect of being under anasthetics at the time.
Source: Gaslighting - The Scourge claim to be pure blooded, supported by the fact that a machine designed to kill anyone with human blood didn't affect them.
Source: Our Demons Are Different -
Artistic License Economics: This argument could be made about Mina's claim of paying off Japan's national debtnote specifically, about how that would actually affect Japan's economy at the start of the story.
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