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View definitions for pertains

pertains

verb as in be relevant to

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Americans exactingly measure everything that pertains to their material well-being.

The second flurry of news pertains to the long-running LIBOR scandal.

But in fact, after age 16, as pertains to the Secret Service, they will be on their own.

But my takeaway from the evening pertains this time more to substance than to style.

All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."

In many respects like the Virginia planter, they differ somewhat in their taste in all that pertains to the turf and the field.

Even in modern Russia some of this dignity pertains to the emperor, as the supreme head of the national church.

In everything which pertains to Art they were benefactors of the human race, and gave a great impulse to civilization.

Further, when I consider a difference that pertains to essence, I call it an essential difference.

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On this page you'll find 25 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pertains, such as: relate, refer, apply, vest, belong, and join.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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