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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

"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

Rubio issued a warning to them and other U.S. allies that belong to the court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“I'm hoping you realize you belong at the Arcanum now. You're a hero.”

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

"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

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

The organism at the center of the discovery belongs to a group of protists called ciliates.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 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

But it can be harder to agree on what exactly belongs in this category.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Staffordshire Police then pulled over the Range Rover in April and confirmed it belonged to Gibbs-White.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Rather than representing isolated exceptions to established magnetic behavior, these materials belonged to an entirely different magnetic category.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

There was a reason these contraptions belonged to the Chili’s end of the dining spectrum.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Some went to places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to which the winged feline has belonged since 1985.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

It was such a relief to be back where they belonged.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

Spreads belonging to some of the riskiest corporate bonds have surged, while spreads for other, less-risky cohorts of the corporate credit market haven’t seen nearly as much stress.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

As the search gets under way, the focus is on any paper in the cells - the books and letters belonging to inmates.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

My most treasured possession belonging to Dad are his movie scripts, leather-bound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

To return to the safety of their belonging to each other.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez


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