belonging
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Her ex-fiancé feared that the same person would continue to “misappropriate” items belonging to the actor’s estate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
What Yank is ultimately searching for is a universal human need—that sense of belonging.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Archaeologists from La Trobe University have described 18 newly published hominin fossils from South Africa, including a second skull fragment belonging to Homo erectus.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
In one clip, a police officer can be seen finding a gun magazine in a backpack belonging to Mangione.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
There’s a mess in my head—a mess of threads belonging to Jasmine and my brother and Sandy and that tent in the backyard and all the dragonflies.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
The all-clear sounds at 2:27 a.m., and people along the platform begin to pack up their belongings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
That includes financial assets, investment accounts, intellectual property, personal belongings and other assets used for retirement or financial planning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Pedestrians in plastic rain ponchos trudged through murky floodwaters in Bangkok's east -- knee-deep in some areas of a grocery store parking lot -- floating their belongings in plastic tubs alongside them, AFP journalists saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
People have been urged to stay at home and those living close to the city's network of canals have been advised to move their belongings to upper floors.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
There were duffel bags and what looked like a yellow-and-blue-striped sheet wrapped and tied around some belongings.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
