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belong

[bih-lawng, -long] / bɪˈlɔŋ, -ˈlɒŋ /




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In January 2025, Dream Team Surf hosted a Pride beach party with a banner that read: “Trans bodies belong on the beach.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

“I think in that sense these characters do belong to everyone so I think that’s probably part of what’s going on. How I would define love I think is maybe immaterial.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

"These are wild animals, they don't belong in a cage."

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

At first, the remains were thought to belong to large prehistoric mammals that may have lived alongside ancient humans.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

It’s like time has stopped, and we’re island creatures returned to the sea where we belong.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

Former Times art critic Christopher Knight argues that much of the imagery the museum collects belongs to a media landscape that no longer exists.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

We know what Indiana Jones would say: “It belongs in a museum!”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

GPR133 belongs to a group known as adhesion G protein-coupled receptors.

From Science Daily Sep. 9, 2026

“His legacy is his children,” she continued, while calling out Wilson’s own hypocrisy for defending Erika Kirk despite long arguing that a woman belongs in the home, not the office.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

He’s a Cambridge man and belongs to the cardigan corps of mathematicians.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Four-time Olympic gold medallist swimmer Ariarne Titmus said she thought the marketing tactic belonged to the past.

From Barron's Sep. 14, 2026

But hesperornithiforms belonged to a separate lineage and disappeared along with most other birds.

From Science Daily Sep. 11, 2026

They tried to exploit a pair of bugs that could have allowed it to publish new versions of existing RubyGems’ files that belonged to other users, the AI researchers said in their report.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Maria belonged to the all-female party crew East Q-Ts.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

Her aunt Mabel’s bowl had once belonged to her grandmother.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

News of the festival cancellation came days after the pounding surf opened a huge sinkhole on the driveway of a beachfront home belonging to Oscar-winning US actor Nicolas Cage.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

To qualify an initiative for the ballot, the initiative’s proponent is “required to collect and submit a large number of signatures belonging to to registered voters who supported the measure.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2026

In the new study, published in Science Advances, the Griffith researchers examined exceptionally rare skeletal remains belonging to two early human foragers from Sulawesi, Indonesia.

From Science Daily Sep. 10, 2026

Aerial footage shows a massive sinkhole in front of a house in Malibu, California, reportedly belonging to US actor Nicolas Cage.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

There’s a mess in my head—a mess of threads belonging to Jasmine and my brother and Sandy and that tent in the backyard and all the dragonflies.

From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender




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