controversial claim

collocation in English

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controversial
adjective
uk
/ˌkɒn.trəˈvɜː.ʃəl/us
/ˌkɑːn.trəˈvɝː.ʃəl/
causing disagreement ...
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claim
noun[C]
uk
/kleɪm/us
/kleɪm/
a statement that something is true or is a fact, although other people might not ...
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(Definition ofcontroversialandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This is a theoretically richer but far morecontroversialclaim.
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Take, for example, thecontroversialclaimthat human language is a biological adaptation.
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Unfortunately, they do not provide more arguments for this interesting butcontroversialclaim.
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This is, of course, a highlycontroversialclaim, and most readers will be unconvinced by my emphasis on efficiency.
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This is a highlycontroversialclaim.
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That, of course, is acontroversialclaim.
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Patently, that highly debatable andcontroversialclaimis made baldly and without any qualification.
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While it has been suggested that the giant sloth may have been partly carnivorous, this is acontroversialclaim.
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He is mainly known for thecontroversialclaimthat religion is not a cultural universal.
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The results of our analysis do not support several of the controversial claims in the literature.
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Some controversial claims, however, do follow from our argument.
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She has also made thecontroversialclaimthat plural number is more marked than dual number, in other words that plural is somehow more complex than dual.
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Some versions are more plausible than others and some contain dubious or at least very controversial claims.
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One of the most controversial claims of the hysteresis school is that the very fact of being unemployed can make individuals unemployable.
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In that chapter he made a number of controversial claims supported by arguments that have generated debate ever since he made them in 1984.
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The book makes a number of controversial claims.
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There have also been controversial claims to have simulated a cat brain.
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One of the book's more controversial claims is that qualia do not (and can not) exist.
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No widely accepted evidence of extraterrestrial life has been found; however, various controversial claims have been made.
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