The phrase "apt to claim" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a tendency or likelihood for someone to assert or state something.
Example: "He is often apt to claim that he knows more than he actually does."
Alternatives: "likely to assert" or "prone to state".
Nowadays, hip-hop fans are apt to claim that live shows are dead experiences, messy reënactments of pristine studio creations.
Before that occurs, it is, rather, the particular aspects and facets of existence that are apt to claim attention.
Every ship or airplane that dropped a depth charge somewhere near a U-boat was apt to claim a kill.
Thus, formal logicians of the school of Frege and Russell were apt to claim that the principles of logic applied unequivocally to all thinking whatsoever; there could be no question of their having to await confirmation, still less correction, from the metaphysician.
So if a film fails to attract audiences, the filmmaker is apt to claim that it is of a deeper quality that mass audiences can't understand or appreciate.
No one would be apt to claim that lawmaking was going on, or object that the age requirement did not say anything about ballot access.
No doubt she will, in time, inform a press that is apt to take such claims on trust, where exactly babies are surviving at 20 weeks, the point when women are screened for foetal abnormalities, or at 21 weeks, or beyond the occasional, miraculous exception, at 22 weeks.
By the very nature of their legal status and limited access to resources, prisoners are apt to take wrong or incomplete steps in pursuit of prison-conditions claims by relying on whatever information is available to them.
While in this conciliatory mood, we are apt to relinquish our claim to know.
Polls have regularly shown a large portion of Republicans are more apt to believe Trump's claims even if they are pretty patently false, as Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell wrote last month.
If young people are not prepared to critically evaluate the information that bombards them online, they are apt to be duped by false claims and misleading arguments.
