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Chris -- 2025-05-10
There are lots of these online:
Their 13th album In Times received great critical claim from several holds, amongst Metal Hammer Magazine who awarded them with Album of the month in March last year.
press release
Even then, Wyeth, at 20, was receiving great critical claim and drawing comparisons to Winslow Homer.
newspaper art-icle
Her first book, Mrs Fry’s Diary – a frank and revealing insight into a year in the Fry household – received great critical claim and provoked a good deal of bemusement.
humour
The Casady Sisters are by far one of the most influential groups in music history, as they’ve won appraisal and great critical claim from music critics all over the world…
music discussion
(Note also “appraisal”, presumably substituted for “praise”, in that one.)
Here we have a piece so desperate to comment on Trump and white privilege that it drudges up a 23 year old modest hit with modest critical claim just to write an obnoxious think piece.
article comment thread
(Note also “drudges” for “dredges” in that one.)
“Claim” for “acclaim” is not too surprising a substitution, since the two are etymologically related. Still, it may be an eggcorn, if not an exciting one, as acclaim could be thought of as claiming something as one’s own, in a sense, or claiming it to be great.
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