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belong

[bih-lawng, -long] / bɪˈlɔŋ, -ˈlɒŋ /




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You don’t own a boat or belong to an expensive country club, and you have $4 million in investments waiting for you to tap.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

She also referenced the chorus of criticism that many homes along California's coast belong to the wealthy or are second homes, and that they never should've been built on such a vulnerable landscape.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

"Real Zaragoza belong to Europe, they belong to compete for trophies, to be fighting with the biggest clubs in Spain and in Europe," said Herrera.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

I rarely read stories about them and would be elated if they’d return to San Diego where they belong.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

A golden necklace with a cross that does not belong to me has been artfully draped on the bureau next to a pair of demure white gloves and a jar of cold cream.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

He belongs to a generation too young to have experienced the vibrant cultural scene that teemed in Havana for decades.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

Misty carries herself imperiously, faking success with a Birkin bag and beachfront crash pad that belongs to a dead lover whose widow wants it back.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The manuscript belongs to Barr’s wife, Dava, who now has Alzheimer’s disease and lives in a care facility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

It describes several overlapping anxieties about modern restaurant food, but its prehistory belongs, at least partly, to the ghost kitchen.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

“It belongs to his dead grandmother. They planned to bury her in it, but it was too large for the coffin.”

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

The minister said nearly 75 percent of Turkey's auto production belonged to European companies and the continent's auto manufacturers have been making cars in the country since 1971.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

However, this was a night where the headlines belonged to Barcola, who on the 238th appearance of his career across clubs and country combined, scored his first hat-trick.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

By comparing the fossil with other prehistoric specimens and living animals, the team determined that Megacauda sungei belonged to the docodonts, an extinct group of early mammal relatives known as mammaliaforms.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

There was a real fear, James says, that the merry-go-round would fall into the hands of a private collector, as the carousel, if not officially, has long symbolically belonged to L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

And in his early days of ushering, he’d once Recollected with a racoon who’d belonged to Pain, and quite frankly, he saw things he could not unsee.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

He lives with his wife and their three children, aged four, seven and eight, in a flat belonging to the Madrid regional government's social housing agency that they occupy without authorisation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Regional tensions remained elevated after Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said a building belonging to Saudi Aramco in Dhahran was targeted Tuesday evening.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Most of these finds were identified as belonging to known species named from neighboring South Africa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Earlier this year, he was acquitted of 241 counts of illegally accessing email accounts belonging to a number of sports bodies in Portugal, including Benfica.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The blessing of belonging to this struggle, this fight.

From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson


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