properly

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Drawing on work by the scholar John Wood, Ms. Kimber proposes that Murry was not Mansfield’s most significant emotional and professional relationship; that claim properly belongs to a man called A.R.

From The Wall Street Journal

Aristotle insisted that material possession should properly be limited to the amount required to participate in a self-sufficient community.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s important! Wake up properly before I tell you.”

From Literature

When a maths equation doesn’t properly compute, we don’t accept it.

From Literature

Neither you nor your sibling, acting alone as a beneficiary — or even as a co-trustee — can arbitrarily retitle land that has been properly placed in a trust.

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