Synonyms for lay claim
lay claim

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1. claim, lay claim, arrogateverb

   demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

   "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"

   Synonyms:
   claim, take, seize, assign, usurp, assume, exact, take over, arrogate

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1. Chip Felkel:

   Her strength is that she can lay claim to being associated with the policies that people like about the Trump administration, but she’s not Donald Trump.

2. Gavin Newsom:

   Today we can lay claim to seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel as it relates to case numbers.

3. Chuck Hoskin:

   Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong.

4. Immanuel Kant:

   Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

5. Rex Tillerson:

   Building islands and then putting military assets on those islands is akin to Russia's taking of Crimea. Its taking of territory that others lay claim to.