Claiming
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- burning and claiming
- burning and pressing
- instant and claiming
- instant and pressing
- obliging and claiming
- obliging and pressing
- critical and claiming
- critical and pressing
- demanding and claiming
- demanding and pressing
- clamorous and claiming
- clamorous and pressing
- serious and claiming
- serious and pressing
Both words in one sentence
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One character, in desperate need of advice on a pressing matter, solicits the help of a second character claiming to be an expert on the subject.
Source: The Blind Leading the Blind - An episode of The Upright Citizens Brigade used a variation of this trope by claiming that they had succeeded in creating a batch of mind-numbingly unbearable commercials, then pressing play and treating the actual commercials as the ones they were referring to.
Source: Commercial Break Cliffhanger
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Pressing and Claiming. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/claiming/pressing
Claiming & Pressing. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/claiming/pressing>.
Pressing or Claiming. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/claiming/pressing.
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