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belong

[bih-lawng, -long] / bɪˈlɔŋ, -ˈlɒŋ /




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In the 2017 PBS documentary “Dolores,” Huerta’s son Emilio Huerta explains, “We soon recognized that my mother didn’t really belong to us.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The medications at the center of the findings belong to a class called Janus kinase inhibitors, or JAKs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

The stories of Clark, Willingham and others brought institutional betrayal painfully close: the place where you hoped to learn, belong and flourish can become another place entirely, one where you must fight to be heard.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Behind these parties is a new generation of black promoters passionate about creating spaces where black people can hear their music, celebrate their cultures and feel like they belong.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

One in particular, with a brown body and white throat, fascinated me with its long, spidery toes that looked as though they should belong to a much bigger bird.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

BFT belongs to a class of enzymes called proteases, which cut other proteins.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Listed as "captive-bred", it belongs to the world's rarest great ape species, with around 800 individuals remaining.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The Mark II suit, with its Army green hue, zippers, pull strings and brown straps, looks like it belongs on the cover of a 1960s sci-fan fan magazine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

In a statement, Comey's lawyers said: "This hard-earned victory belongs to Ms Comey, to all civil servants, and to all fighting for the rule of law."

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

Now it belongs to the Germans, confiscated for their Fatherland.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

At 57, he married Nancy Randolph, 22 years his junior, who belonged to a first family of Virginia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

It cited one unnamed source briefed on the situation as saying the ID posted by Bukele in fact belonged to a soldier who had lost it when he had been injured.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

Your childhood home, legally and morally, belonged to your father.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

The jet used in Ghosn's dramatic escape from Japan to Turkey belonged to TOA, a subsidiary of the Sodiat Group, though it was being operated by Turkish company MNG Jet during the fugitive journey.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Money . . . why, that belonged to the world of shops and trolley cars.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Funds belonging to users of the French firm Ledger were stolen after malicious components were inserted into devices sold by a third-party retailer.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Many immigrants figured out that sometimes they don’t have a sense of belonging and in the past few years that has been highlighted even more,” Suazo said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

A wallet belonging to a suspected attacker appeared to show more than $2.5 million in funds drawn from Polymarket user accounts, according to a Wall Street Journal review of wallet activity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

These are the largest known fruiting bodies among fungi belonging to the phylum Ascomycota.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

“Bah! No. It is some nonsense belonging to the children. A book of poetry, translated from the German. Pure rubbish, in my opinion.”

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood


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