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
In her formal review, she was less forgiving: “Green olives don’t belong on Caesar and this one was lacking an adequate amount of croutons.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
It added that it is actively removing videos and accounts that break the rules, including the account believed to belong to Saddington.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
“But the future’s even better,” Mr. Hodge said, as JB interjected, “No, you really don’t belong in the twenty-first century.”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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"I know how you feel: sadness, anger, and that all-too-familiar unease in our history, because someone decides what belongs to us, in our name, without taking us into account," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Experimentation belongs there, so do sudden spikes and so do the proprietary frontier models, whose owners release the weights to nobody.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
There is no doubt within Itauma's camp that he belongs at this level.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Instead, I should look for something that belongs to Dad and no one else.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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U.S. officials said the rocket launchers that were struck belonged to the Revolutionary Guards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
After an hour-long search, documents did emerge from beneath the silt -- but they belonged to a neighbour and were duly returned.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The researchers concluded that all three belonged to a primitive stem lineage of insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
It was a strange little society of meats that belonged neither behind the butcher counter nor among the premium lunch meats — the thin-sliced turkey in its tidy package, the glossy hunk of honey ham.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
Then the painting would have belonged in Gallery Eleven, Use of Mythic Figures in Ominous Landscapes.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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
The researchers used analytical techniques first developed by their team in 2024 to identify the footprints as belonging to Paranthropus boisei.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
From the lonely coldness of his uncle’s house he’d found love and belonging on the seas.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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