belong
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In California, the proposed changes would cover the more than 85 nonprofit colleges and universities that belong to the Assn. of Independent California Colleges and Universities, among them Stanford and USC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Almost 80% of Liechtenstein's population of about 41,000 people belong to the Roman Catholic Church which is opposed to abortion.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
By determining which frogs belong to which species and mapping where they occur, the researchers have also created a stronger scientific basis for conservation in Madagascar, where many forests are rapidly disappearing.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
But plenty of these decisions used to belong to parents alone, and now they don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Country road, take me home, to the place I belong.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
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Surely all art, from the “Mona Lisa” to the rooms of L.A.’s currently popular pop-up Hospital of Emotions, belongs to the people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
“The real question is whether the market evidence verifies that this particular property belongs there,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
All phones eventually expire, and if it’s too old to get a security patch, it belongs in the recycling bin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
It's hard to to imagine what kind of people would sell the sport that belongs to everyone.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
But as we stand over the gravestone she will share with Grandpa, listening to Ruth blow her nose, I imagine that the stone belongs to someone else.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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U.S. officials said the rocket launchers that were struck belonged to the Revolutionary Guards.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
After an hour-long search, documents did emerge from beneath the silt -- but they belonged to a neighbour and were duly returned.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
The researchers concluded that all three belonged to a primitive stem lineage of insects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
As much as she belonged to Appalachia, she also belonged to the world.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
I stopped just before I stepped onto the land that now belonged to the DeLunas, and took a deep breath as I walked over that invisible boundary line.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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"Life-saving equipment, including a lifeboat belonging to the Tugberk Imamoglu which had 10 crew members on board, has been found at sea. Unfortunately, the crew members were not inside," it said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
She expects the memoir to return to family, its history, but above all to Sonia's own sense of belonging to the dynasty and of assuming its political mantle as Congress president.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Shuttle tankers belonging to Middle East state-controlled oil companies are hauling crude from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Gulf of Oman.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The researchers used analytical techniques first developed by their team in 2024 to identify the footprints as belonging to Paranthropus boisei.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
An old man belonging to Colonel Lloyd, while thus engaged, happened to get beyond the limits of Colonel Lloyd’s, and on the premises of Mr. Beal Bondly.
From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
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