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belong

[bih-lawng, -long] / bɪˈlɔŋ, -ˈlɒŋ /




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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Electrons belong to a group of particles called fermions, and quantum mechanics prevents fermions from gathering in the same state.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

The petition argues that Kumar exercised powers that belong to the commission collectively and seeks a ruling that any such actions were unauthorised.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Many of the companies that supply hotel fragrances belong to the Switzerland-based International Fragrance Assn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

But in some ways they’d always belong to me, and I couldn’t imagine not belonging to them.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

The reality is that Haaland no longer belongs just to Norway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

We have $1.6 million in retirement accounts, a little more than half of which belongs to my husband.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 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

Fe5GeTe2, discovered seven years ago, belongs to a family of materials known as van der Waals magnets.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Under the law he belongs to his father, ma’am.”

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

In telework plans signed over several years, the employee submitted a California address, which he explained later had belonged to a family member.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

The protist belonged to a previously unidentified species, and its genetic instructions appeared to operate according to an unusual set of rules.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

His family had a big house, belonged to a country club and paid for his college and graduate school.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

He belonged to a family of the founders of Be’eri.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

The last classroom they visited belonged to Mrs. Apple, an energetic lady with full red cheeks worthy of her name.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Earlier this year, he was acquitted in a second trial of 241 counts of illegally accessing email accounts belonging to a number of sports bodies in Portugal, including Benfica.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In Malibu, an enormous sink hole emerged in the driveway of a home belonging to Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage when pounding waves from a nearby hurricane eroded the coastline.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But growing up in Los Angeles, he found a sense of belonging in a multicultural community that gave him an appreciation for different cultures, cuisines and music.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

To determine when the ability developed and how it changed over time, the team retraced lactoferrin's evolutionary history and reconstructed versions belonging to its extinct ancestors.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

“The infamous New Orleans abode belonging to the Devil’s daughter went up in flames earlier, in what Unremarkable officials think was a gas leak,” he says.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas




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