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someone who claims a benefit or right or title

claimants of unemployment compensation

he was a claimant to the throne
She suggests that claimants work through an attorney rather than dealing directly with the liability insurance company.
The settlement will be split among three claimants.
While the remains of Jim Hall were discovered on a dozen mountain-sides by greedy claimants for bloodmoney.
Jack London -- White Fang
There was none, but the difficulty of providing for so many claimants.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
She would marry, and would have new claimants on her tenderness; and in doing it, would never know the love for her that had grown up in my heart.
Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
"Another new claimant of the Crown!" cried the officer.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
The law is clear: it doth not require the claimant to prove ye are slaves, it requireth you to prove ye are not.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
He did not know that Clyde Toomey had bought the land again from the Mexican claimants.
Louis L'Amour -- The Broken Gun
He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
She'd nodded stiffly, her face impassive, and the captain of her guard had raised his crossbow and shot the claimant for her hand through the heart.
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
But this didn't happen—not for us and not for any of those other claimants to the estate.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
With no direct heir, there are sure to be many claimants contending for the Hornwood lands.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
Hide him under the Rock and he becomes just another claimant to the throne, no different than Stannis.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Henry Green had added his name to the claimants for salvage and obtained as his lawyer William Ellsworth, who was also Governor of Connecticut at the time.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
In two years six million dollars was thus distributed to five thousand claimants, and in the end the sum exceeded eight million dollars.
W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
So what do I want with all this— imaginary capital, phony claimants, malice, envy?
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
There is no other claimant, I presume?
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
It was to decide who deserved this love gift that the three divine claimants repaired to Paris.
Homer -- The Iliad

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