'stake claim' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to indicate that someone is asserting or laying claim to something. For example: John staked claim to the abandoned house at the edge of town.
YouTube multichannel networks stake claim to the future of TV.
The law allows virtually any U.S. citizen or company to stake claim to minerals on federal lands across the West.
To varying degrees, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam and Malaysia all stake claim to parts of the area.
Sy Williams, Martine Martinez and Richard McKenzie stake claim, Fang family San Francisco examiner photograph archive negative files [graphic], BANC PIC 2006.029 138799.02.18--NEG.
In France, the magicians' association helps facilitate this by releasing an annual DVD called Secrets of the Year, where magicians can stake claim to authorship of breakthroughs.
When it comes to space exploration in general, do you think individual countries should have the right to stake claim to or "colonize" the moon or other planets?
Social agents often stake claims to the naming operations that are embedded in official discourse.
A rush is on to stake claims and begin mineral exploration in the Arctic.
On suburban plots, hillsides, even gullies--wherever the condo /shopping mall /industrial park developers have yet to stake claim--these farmers raise specialty crops to supply a growing demand for offbeat produce.
Arctic countries have rushed to stake claims of this fragile place for themselves.
Rarely used today, it let private owners stake claims as in the Klondike gold rush.
