Claim
Claim noun - A solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of something.
Usage example: Galileo's claim that the moon has a very irregular surface and thus is not the perfect sphere that the ancients had imagined
Insistence and claim are semantically related In some cases you can use "Insistence" instead a noun "Claim".
Insistence
Insistence noun - A solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of something.
Usage example: a continued insistence that there was a massive cover-up by the government
Claim and insistence are semantically related in assertion topic. Sometimes you can use "Claim" instead a noun "Insistence".
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- Under insistence from her boyfriend Susumu, a woman named Nozomi pretends to be her dead best friend, Noriko, in order to claim an inheritance from Noriko's long dead grandmother.
Source: Inadequate Inheritor - There's also the author of the manuscript's claim that not only is The Navidson Record real, despite the editor's insistence that no such documentary exists, but also that the characters are real people and that Karen was the one who arranged for the tapes to be compiled.
Source: Direct Line to the Author - In Starship Operators, the sound effects are added at the insistence of the reality TV producers who sponsor the ship - with the claim that it's what their viewers expect - much to the annoyance of some crew members.
Source: Space Is Noisy
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