Claim
Claim verb - To state as a fact usually forcefully.
Tax
Tax verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
How words are described
| special | special claim | special tax |
| free | free claim | free tax |
| reasonable | reasonable claim | reasonable tax |
| small | small claim | small tax |
| Other adjectives: big, several, controversial. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Mostly inverted by countries that use pay-as-you-go tax (taxes are withheld from your pay, at which point you claim back your deductions.) Just don't make too many furphies on your tax return...
Source: Intimidating Revenue Service - They Look Like Us Now: Everyone in the party is nonhuman, but some claim to be human for tax purposes.
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Thus, no patriotic Roman listener could honestly claim Jesus had told anyone not to pay taxes, and no loyal Jew (even the Zealots, who were violently anti-Roman hardliners) could claim that Jesus had told them they had to pay any and every tax Rome might think to levy on them.
Source: Exact Words
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