bold claim

collocation in English

meaningsofboldandclaim

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bold
adjective
uk
/bəʊld/
us
/boʊld/
not frightened ...
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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 ofboldandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbold claim

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They stake aboldclaimfor a single perceptual system that utilizes global arrays of energy.
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At least the second of these is already aboldclaim, and it is hard to see how it could be adequately supported.
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However, he doesn't develop thisboldclaimor give arguments for it to any extent.
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By the text's end, she has provided ample evidence to support thisboldclaim.
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This is aboldclaimand the research agenda which accompanies this claim is ambitious.
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Goldstein'sboldclaimis all the more surprising because she admits that "the self" was not really a problem for most eighteenth-century thinkers.
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This may seem a ratherboldclaim, given what he has already said about how so many are indifferent towards or hopelessly biased in religious enquiries.
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This is a veryboldclaim.
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Hall'sboldclaimabout women and social capital is based upon data showing that women's membership of associations more than doubled between 1959 and 1990 (increasing by 127 per cent).
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If thatboldclaimwere true, there would be no need for this legislation.
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No one who has taken any part in research and development would for a moment make such a rash andboldclaim.
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That is aboldclaim, and a dangerous one.
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That is aboldclaimand is wholly at variance with experience in this as well as in other countries.
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One anticipated aboldclaim, with a suggestion of amalgamation with larger undertakings.
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That is aboldclaimand it will certainly be a tough target for us to meet.
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That is a proud claim, and it is aboldclaimwhen one thinks of all the great periods in our long history.
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If so, that is aboldclaimto make.
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That is aboldclaim.
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That is a veryboldclaim.
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As stated, the hypothesis may appear to be aboldclaim.
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