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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

"You surmise, in spite of your guardian's disclaimer, that the discussion will pertain to your recovery of the town of Linz?"

From The Sword Maker by Barr, Robert