belong
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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