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We teach judges what the science shows while leaving the legal conclusions where they belong: with the judges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
She said she wanted it to be a public space people felt they could belong to.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
A dinosaur fossil that spent nearly a century overlooked in a museum collection has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of prehistoric predator.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
I lived at the Chateau Marmont for the better part of three years, then I bought an apartment in New York and went back to where I really belong.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
At first I worried that they might belong to somebody, but then I remembered that the farm is ours, so these flowers must belong to us too.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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The dinosaur, named Invictibellatrix amberina, is described in a new paper in the journal Royal Society Open Science and belongs to a group of agile, two-legged carnivores called megaraptorans.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
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
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
Fe5GeTe2, discovered seven years ago, belongs to a family of materials known as van der Waals magnets.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The man runs his dirty hand over my feather quilt, as if it already belongs to him.
From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar
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Rather than representing isolated exceptions to established magnetic behavior, these materials belonged to an entirely different magnetic category.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Occasionally, someone stole one, apparently deciding that a restaurant pager belonged in the same category of souvenir as a pebbled Coke glass.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
The house, with origins in the 15th Century, belonged to textile, fashion and retail entrepreneur Laura Ashley and her husband Bernard and owned by the family until his death in 2009.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
It belonged to Hsuan-An Pan, who was with her golden retriever, Theo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“These boots belonged to my daddy,” I said, trying to keep my voice light.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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At the heart of the legal argument is an attribution study published in a journal belonging to the Nature group, which estimates that climate change intensified the extreme rainfall in 2024 by 12 percent.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
King Charles III has praised Welsh people's "sense of belonging", as he and Queen Camilla officially opened the Senedd's seventh term.
From BBC ● 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
Researchers recognised the elephant as a female who had lost a calf several years earlier and said she had previously picked up dead calves belonging to other females.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The only way to build Göbekli Tepe was for thousands of foragers belonging to different bands and tribes to cooperate over an extended period of time.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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