belong
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Hellmich had "used forged documents and a false email address" purporting to belong to Campbell, the tribunal ruled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
So, yes, legally those assets are marital property and, ethically, they both belong to you and your wife.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
My spring pea soup — peas, stock, cream, dill, black pepper and lemon zest — absolutely does not belong in the oven.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
“If there’s anything we need these days, it’s a sense that people belong somewhere,” he added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
It makes you feel comfortable here, like maybe you could belong.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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In this vein, “Little Girl” fully belongs on the “Rubber Soul” box set, a collection that points towards the bold sense of artistry already taking hold of the band.
From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026
ABT-263 belongs to a class of experimental drugs known as senolytics.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026
The use of AI by governments to monitor people beyond their borders belongs in that conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
But Pawel wants to stress that the university system is still growing, and still testing out systems for figuring out who belongs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“Yeah, but we still have some of it, and who knows where it came from. Who it really belongs to.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Cartamundi is based in Belgium, but operates a factory the size of 20 football fields in East Longmeadow, Mass., that once belonged to Hasbro.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
While speaking to The Cut in 2025, Ortega recalled going through belongings at the property when she discovered an old toothbrush that had belonged to an ex.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
El Adli said the fossils likely belonged to an animal from one of two extinct mammal families that roamed North America during the Uintan North American Land Mammal Age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
"Precision experiments are now reaching a level of sensitivity where they can test ideas that, until recently, belonged almost exclusively to the realm of theoretical speculation," says Curceanu.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
Indeed, Clare needed not wonder where this wandering soul belonged.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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He added that 27 air strikes had targeted an "integrated military system" belonging to the Houthis in Taiz.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
A church bell can sound within earshot of a mosque's call to prayer; a shrine belonging to one faith can draw followers of another.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Some favor academic rigor; others cultural belonging, diversity, discipline, language, religion or the arts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
That wisdom becomes less funny the farther you stand from whatever a workplace has already decided looks like belonging.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
It was through his collaboration with other scientists that Pascal came to have the sense of belonging to a collectivity greater than himself.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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