belong
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You belong to a colorful, lively and resilient community of senior renters.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
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
He also knew he did not belong with them.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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"But when I held the earring they took from your body, all I could think was: That belongs to you," she wrote.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Taken together, the mental hospital hoax belongs to the same family of attacks.
From Salon ● Oct. 15, 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
Fe5GeTe2, discovered seven years ago, belongs to a family of materials known as van der Waals magnets.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
“I don’t think she’s ever been arrested. And the car belongs to Grandma Mae.”
From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko
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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 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
The species belonged to Madtsoiidae, an extinct family of snakes that survived for roughly 100 million years, from the Late Cretaceous to the Late Pleistocene.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
It belonged to Hsuan-An Pan, who was with her golden retriever, Theo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
“I sat on it. I sat on my ass, which sat on the rifle, which had belonged to my grandfather during the Civil War that he did not fight in.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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According to an ECI breakdown seen by AFP, around 28 million entries were classified as belonging to deceased voters and 10.4 million as duplicates, while millions of others were marked as absent, shifted or untraceable.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 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
Along with the robot, police seized two mobile phones belonging to the suspects.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
Most of these finds were identified as belonging to known species named from neighboring South Africa.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Set back on the land were pens for cattle, sheep and hogs; and around and about were sheds and houses belonging to the men who worked the docks and shipped the livestock.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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