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belong

[bih-lawng, -long] / bɪˈlɔŋ, -ˈlɒŋ /




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In January 2025, Dream Team Surf hosted a Pride beach party with a banner that read: “Trans bodies belong on the beach.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

For example: “This is excellent work and we should absolutely have it” and “We should therefore pay for it” ought logically to belong together.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

"These are wild animals, they don't belong in a cage."

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Photographs and videos widely shared online show the young apes sitting together on the forest floor and eating bananas, thousands of kilometres from the tropical rainforests where they belong.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

“I don’t have anyone. I belong with my sister.”

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

One of them is the muon, a heavier relative of the electron that belongs to the second generation.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

The answer starts with Jesus, but much of the credit belongs to St. Paul, who dispensed with Jewish dietary law, circumcision requirements and prohibitions against intermarriage, thus broadening the appeal of early Christianity.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Jagannathan’s character belongs to an ancient, shape-shifting race created by the Guardians of the Universe as the galaxy’s first police force, but they’ve since gone rogue and are now out to eliminate the human race.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Instead of asking whether he belongs at Barcelona, people are now discussing just how important he could become.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

She belongs here, on this island, with all of you.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Experts said at the hearing the bracelet would have once belonged to a man or woman of high status within their farming community.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

Rather, he was implementing his business strategy by using AI, putting the emphasis where it truly belonged.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

In September, Walters moved out of his childhood home and rented a small house with Oxford that belonged to Oxford’s sister.

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

She said the paper’s stance made Latinos feel like they belonged in the city.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Nighttime belonged to the sídhe, so I was afraid to take more than a few steps, but it was far enough.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

An AFP journalist reported that firefighters could be seen trying to extinguish the flames of a burnt-out fuel tank belonging to state oil and gas company Aramco.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

It’s as simple as ABC: agency, belonging and cause.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

A trove of internal data belonging to a China-based cybersecurity company, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, provides a new window into an evolution that international cybersecurity experts have tracked in recent years.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

That translates into belonging in different spaces where I could have been uncomfortable in before, so it’s a great time to inhabit these characters.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

From the lonely coldness of his uncle’s house he’d found love and belonging on the seas.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook




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