Claim
Claim verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.
Justifying and claim are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Justifying" with "Claim", this verbs are similar.
Justifying
Claim and justifying are semantically related in legitimize topic. Sometimes you can use "Claim" instead a verb "Justifying".
Both words in one sentence
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Renly plans to kill Stannis the next day in battle, citing his larger army as justifying him having a better claim then Stannis.
Source: Villain with Good Publicity - Worf Had the Flu is a related trope where a normally-Badass character who suffers a lapse of badassery can claim illness or some other justifying excuse for her loss.
Source: Working Through the Cold -
In spite, the Duke publically slanders YOU as the Deal Taker, justifying his claim with the destruction that surely would not have come if you destroyed the dragon as the prophecies (and common sense) foretold.
Source: Malicious Slander
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Justifying and Claim. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/justifying
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Justifying or Claim. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/claim/justifying.
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