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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
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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
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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
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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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