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belongs

  • present tense form
    of belong (3rd person singular).
    belong
    verb (used without object)
    to be in the relation of a member, adherent, inhabitant, etc. (usually followed byto ).

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“It belongs in the hands of the people, because it’s too valuable to cut up and develop.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Scientists do not currently agree on exactly what belongs in that category, a problem Kennedy summarized with characteristic bluntness: “If you can’t define a problem, you can’t solve it.”

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

One is housed at the Natural History Museum Denmark, while the other belongs to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

But I needed revenge, because football belongs to people like me.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

“I can’t tell what’s wrong, but it was limping. I wonder who it belongs to?”

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall