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
A boy who looked like he was my age told me his uncle took a piece of fruit that did not belong to him and was sentenced to five years of hard labor in Aswan.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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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
“Because of its history, Volkswagen also belongs to us, the employees.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He belongs out there no more than Kiké Hernandez does.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
Yet that brook belongs to a part of my life that is finished.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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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
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
The defense claimed that kidney test evidence produced at the trial belonged to Maradona's father, also named Diego, who died in 2015, not the star of the 1986 World Cup.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 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
“These boots belonged to my daddy,” I said, though she was already halfway to the kitchen.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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“There was no theft by Suzette. Suzette has not stolen, misappropriated, or improperly taken money or property belonging to A.B., Abraham, Chris, Selena’s estate or any family-owned or jointly owned business,” read the statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"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
She expects the memoir to return to family, its history, but above all to Sonia's own sense of belonging to the dynasty and of assuming its political mantle as Congress president.
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
My friends in Cambridge had become a kind of family, and I felt a sense of belonging with them that, for many years, had been absent on Buck’s Peak.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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