Claim and Report

Claim

Claim verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.

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Report and claim are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Report" instead the word "Claim" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: claimed, claiming, claimant

Report verb - To give an oral or written account of in some detail.

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Claim and report are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Claim" instead the word "Report" as a verb or a noun.

old	old claim	old report
good	good claim	good report
special	special claim	special report
better	better claim	better report
Other adjectives: similar, original, fake, free, initial, many, true, single, actual, entire, real, infamous, false, main, final, later, next, last, earlier.

Along comes Troy Borren, a young Space Elevator worker who is late filing a report, so he breaks into the building after hours in order to claim that he filed the report on-time.

Source: Mistaken Confession
Or it may be done merely to strengthen their claim that they're innocent and ignorant of the crime (the same logic that sometimes leads criminals to report their own crimes to the police).

Source: Detective Patsy
A common mistake when papers report on naval combat is to claim that any ship which doesn't go underwater or carry planes is a battleship.

Source: Cowboy Bebop At His Computer / Other

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