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belong

[bih-lawng, -long] / bɪˈlɔŋ, -ˈlɒŋ /




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Soy isoflavones belong to a group of compounds called flavonoids and can mimic some actions of the hormone estrogen.

From Science Daily • May 30, 2026

“Was it slow? Absolutely, but that was because everyone understood these places belong to the people.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"Greenland belongs to us. It's our country. It doesn't belong to Denmark or the United States. We are a people and we live here," 68-year-old Greenlander Grethe Kramer Berthelsen told AFP.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

That, Warsh has argued, has crowded the Fed into markets where it doesn’t belong and unwittingly subsidized federal borrowing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

“What if someone wanted to sell it? I bet they could get a lot of money for a mitt that used to belong to Willy ‘Winner’ Prime.”

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon




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