outrageous claim
collocation in Englishmeaningsofoutrageousandclaim
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outrageous
adjective
uk/ˌaʊtˈreɪ.dʒəs/us/ˌaʊtˈreɪ.dʒəs/
shocking and ...
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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 ofoutrageousandclaimfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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I am not making theoutrageousclaimthat the brain is nothing but a big emulator system.
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In some senses, this is anoutrageousclaim.
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That is anoutrageousclaim, which has been dealt with on several occasions.
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That is an untrue and utterlyoutrageousclaim.
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The writer of the letter makes anoutrageousclaim.
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That is anoutrageousclaim.
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That is anoutrageousclaim; we all know how uncertain success really is and how often our most determined efforts fail to help people with immigration and asylum problems.
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The team-created commercial must have included a jingle andoutrageousclaim.
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Nevertheless, for all the often outrageous claims and understandable cynicism, at least in the period between autumn 1926 and late summer 1927, community singing did capture the popular imagination.
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Not once have we been told the basis of the outrageous claims of savings of £100 million.
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Outrageous claims have been made today and previously about some aspects of investment.
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We must firmly reject those who denigrate the health service and those who make outrageous claims for electoral purposes.
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No doubt the courts would take a commonsense approach on some of the more outrageous claims by those affected by breach of the charter.
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They do not, to my mind, suggest anything in the nature of outrageous claims having been allowed as a general rule in any particular case.
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People who make outrageous claims will come to realise that they cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
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These organisations made outrageous claims to the people who purchased the plans—in particular, that there would be no mortgage involved and that they could not possibly lose their homes.
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Cartman makes outrageous claims with no basis for fact under the guise that he is simply asking rhetorical questions and seeking further discussion.
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The crowd that witnessed the demonstration made outrageous claims about the workings of the boat, such as magic, telepathy, and being piloted by a trained monkey hidden inside.
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