belong
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In California, the proposed changes would cover the more than 85 nonprofit colleges and universities that belong to the Assn. of Independent California Colleges and Universities, among them Stanford and USC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
When thinking of the greatest managers of the Premier League era, Arsene Wenger, Sir Alex Ferguson and Pep Guardiola are names that belong high on the list.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
By determining which frogs belong to which species and mapping where they occur, the researchers have also created a stronger scientific basis for conservation in Madagascar, where many forests are rapidly disappearing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
We can once again delineate the end of the era via new shows that don’t belong to it.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
“Fifty-five acres. Used to belong to the Leon family,” says Colin.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Surely all art, from the “Mona Lisa” to the rooms of L.A.’s currently popular pop-up Hospital of Emotions, belongs to the people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The pilotless plane belongs to Pyka, where Marotzke works as a flight test engineer.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“The real question is whether the market evidence verifies that this particular property belongs there,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
All phones eventually expire, and if it’s too old to get a security patch, it belongs in the recycling bin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
They have a fight that sounds like it belongs on the factory floor.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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She bore a large scar on her face when she met with AFP at her home in Bethlehem, holding a stuffed fox that had belonged to her son.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
As much as she belonged to Appalachia, she also belonged to the world.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
“I knew I belonged, and I knew I was going to do well,” Miles said earlier this season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The participants belonged to the OneK1K cohort, a major Australian research project created to investigate how genetics affects individual immune cells across a large population.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
The sky belonged to the girl who had disappeared into its fire, to save the world she had chosen to love.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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"Life-saving equipment, including a lifeboat belonging to the Tugberk Imamoglu which had 10 crew members on board, has been found at sea. Unfortunately, the crew members were not inside," it said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
But the Constitution gave Congress the power to manage property belonging to the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
Her memoir may therefore be less a political reckoning than a defence of belonging - an attempt to explain what the Nehru-Gandhi inheritance has meant to her, and why she believes it still matters.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Shuttle tankers belonging to Middle East state-controlled oil companies are hauling crude from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf of Oman.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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