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claim ( P ) Pronunciation Key (klm)
tr.v. claimed, claim·ing, claims
To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due: claim a reward; claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.
To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.
To deserve or call for; require: problems that claim her attention.


J - your alleged meetings of Princess Di and Jimmy Carter and flying in Airforce 2 are claims (see above definition) as many find them hard to believe and their is no substantiated proof