false claim

collocation in English

meaningsoffalseandclaim

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false
adjective
uk
/fɒls/us
/fɑːls/
not real, but made to look or ...
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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 offalseandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffalse claim

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However, crucially, the model doesn't commit us to thefalseclaimthat all affixation is morphemic.
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A theist need not worry about her inability to defend a manifestlyfalseclaim.
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The net benefit framework allows the quantification and valuation of both the consequences of afalseclaimand the benefits of a true claim.
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These factors include: the type of product, the consequences of afalseclaim, the benefits of a truthful claim, the costs of developing substantiation for the claim.
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Must social salience theory declare that necessarily the one who claims that the act-token is really prohibited by the statute makes afalseclaim?
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I do not make any suchfalseclaim.
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That is then taken by the immigration officials as meaning that the child, in claiming to be under that age, is making afalseclaim.
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That would include afalseclaimto be an approved inspector.
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This amendment, therefore, will make it an offence to make afalseclaimthat a competition or lottery forms part of the national lottery.
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The concern for the consumer is that afalseclaimis made on a label that food has been irradiated.
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The people of the north are practical and down-to-earth people, who can distinguishfalseclaimfrom reality.
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First, there are those who make afalseclaimin order to get in.
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It was afalseclaimbecause it was so inaccurate.
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I fear that their enthusiasm has led them to make afalseclaim.
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If afalseclaimis made, there are established procedures for objecting to the inclusion of a specific name in the register.
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Some of our critics have had great mileage out of the totallyfalseclaimthat these trusts will opt out of the service.
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Any claim that the addition of the new good cause in itself breaches the cause of additionality is afalseclaim.
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Grant, will he now withdraw thefalseclaimthat he made two days ago that operations are done on the basis of clinical need?
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It is afalseclaim.
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I think we all realise that it is not always going to be easy to prove the offence of making afalseclaimto be undercutting the prices of others.
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