pertain
verb (used without object)
to have reference or relation; relate.
will pertain
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future tenseof pertain.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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When it takes effect next year, the rule will pertain to sales of trucks ranging in size from delivery vans to big rigs.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
It’s an enhanced-security identification that will pertain to people who want to fly or enter federal facilities, such as courthouses or military bases; it also will be required to enter nuclear plants.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 25, 2019
More often than not, the information being exchanged between private companies and the government will pertain to the method of attack, not the content that hackers are after, according to the administration.
From The Verge ● Jan. 13, 2015
But The Business Week, instead of having general discourses on business, industry, finance, will pertain most specifically to business news, with merely some of the features of the old magazine.
From Time Magazine Archive
He may sometimes, again, do wrong, for so long as he is in the world imperfection will pertain to him; but the ruling power of sin will be broken in his heart.
From Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters Volume 3 by Mrs. A. G. Whittelsey
