pertains

[ per-teynz ]

verb

1. 3rd person singular present indicative of pertain.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pertains¹

pertain ( def ) + -s ²( def )

Example Sentences

While navigating between the related keywords pertaining to your niche, you’ll be able to easily identify all major players in the market.

From Search Engine Land

Let narcissism trickle down into every crevice, particularly as it pertains to one’s sexual and pharmaceutical appetites, swiping left and swiping right and then snorting up.

From Washington Post

The American Bar Association has suggestions pertaining specifically to hiring bias for those with disabilities.

From Fortune

The top three answers all pertain to review quality and quantity.

From Search Engine Land

Hastorf has long been interested in the relationships between people and plants throughout history, particularly as they pertain to what people ate in the past.

From Ars Technica

Americans exactingly measure everything that pertains to their material well-being.

From The Daily Beast

The second flurry of news pertains to the long-running LIBOR scandal.

From The Daily Beast

But in fact, after age 16, as pertains to the Secret Service, they will be on their own.

From The Daily Beast

But my takeaway from the evening pertains this time more to substance than to style.

From The Daily Beast

All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."

From Project Gutenberg

In many respects like the Virginia planter, they differ somewhat in their taste in all that pertains to the turf and the field.

From Project Gutenberg

Even in modern Russia some of this dignity pertains to the emperor, as the supreme head of the national church.

From Project Gutenberg

In everything which pertains to Art they were benefactors of the human race, and gave a great impulse to civilization.

From Project Gutenberg

Further, when I consider a difference that pertains to essence, I call it an essential difference.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• apply
• refer
• relate